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# WATCH: President Obama on Syria

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## Video: WATCH: President Obama on Syria

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_Published 2013-08-29. President Obama talked to PBS Newshour on August 28, 2013 about Syria_


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## Transcript

Well I have not made a decision I have gotten options from our military. I had extensive discussions with the national security team. We've got a situation in which you've got a well- established international norm against the use of chemical weapons. Syria has one of the largest stockpiles in the world of chemical weapons. This is a volatile country in a very volatile region. We've got allies bordering Syria, Turkey is a Nato ally, Jordan a close friend, that we work with a lot, Israel is very close by. We've got bases throughout the region. We can not see a breach of the nonproliferation norm that allows potentially chemical weapons to fall into the hands of all kinds of folks.

We're prepared to work with anybody the Russians and others to try to bring the parties together to resolve the conflict. But we want the Assad Regime to understand that by using chemical weapons on a large scale against your own people, against women, against infants, against children that you are not only breaking international norms and standards of decency but you're also creating a situation where U. S. national interests are effected. And that needs to stop.

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