Kerry: Obama To Make ‘Informed’ Decision on Syria

Secretary of State John Kerry
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President Barack Obama will make an “informed” decision as to how and to what extent the U.S. will respond to the reported chemical weapons use by Syria’s Assad regime in the days to come, Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday.

“The administration is actively consulting with members of Congress,” Kerry told reporters at the State Department, offering no details about a possible military response but signaling that the administration would hold Syria accountable.

Kerry also said in a blistering statement that the evidence of the chemical weapons attack is overwhelming and indisuptable.

“The reported number of victims, the reported symptoms of those who were killed or injured, the first-hand accounts from humanitarian organizations on the ground like ‘Doctors Without Borders’ and the ‘Syria Human Rights Commission,’ these all strongly indicate that everything these images are already screaming at us is real, that chemical weapons were used in Syria,” Kerry said.

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