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Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III suffers one of three sacks registered against him by a fierce Philadelphia Eagles defense on Monday, Sept. 9 at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. The Skins fell 33-27. To read the story, visit, www.washingtoninformer.com. /Photo by John E. De Freitas
Protestors Take to the Streets against Syria War By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer President Barack Obama addressed the nation Tuesday night during prime time, explaining his rationale as to why the U.S. should punish Syria for a chemical weapon attack he blames on President Bashir Al-Assad.
Obama, in a 15-minute address from the White House, said America had a moral obligation and national security interest in launching military strikes against Syria. “[As the civil war raged], America worked with allies to provide humanitarian support, to help the moderate opposi-
tion, and to shape a political settlement, but I have resisted calls for military action because we cannot resolve someone else’s civil war through force, particularly after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan,” the president said. “The situation profoundly changed, though, on August 21st, when
Assad’s government gassed to death over 1,000 people, including hundreds of children. The images from this massacre are sickening: men, women, children laying in rows, killed by poison gas, others foaming at the mouth, gasping for breath, a father clutching his dead children, imploring them
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to get up and walk.” On that terrible night, Obama said, the world saw in gruesome detail the ghastly nature of chemical weapons and why the overwhelming majority of the world has declared them off-limits, a crime against hu-
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