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Congressman Holding Statement Following House Foreign Affairs Hearing on Military Action in Syria

Statement

Date: Sept. 5, 2013
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Defense

Congressman George Holding, a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, released a statement this morning after the Committee's hearing on military action in Syria:

"After classified briefings and hearing directly from Secretaries Kerry and Hagel yesterday in the Foreign Affairs Committee, I am more skeptical than ever about President Obama's plan to bomb Syria. For Secretary Kerry to say an attack on Syria -- which when you get right down to it amounts to an act of war -- is a limited strike, and then add we "are not fighting to win,' doesn't make a bit of sense.

What we heard today from the administration was purely and simply an exercise in minimizing and understating risks -- and nothing I heard convinced me it is necessary to send one American soldier into battle."


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