Sep 2, 2014 ... How the United States should respond has been a ripe topic for pundits and  politicians, with many dogging President Barack Obama for saying "we ... tells  every member of Congress, including the president, we're about to be attacked in  a serious way because (of) the threat emanating from Syria and Iraq?
He resisted demands to act in part because he assumed, based on the analysis  of U.S. intelligence, that Assad would fall without his help. “He thought Assad  would go the way Mubarak went,” Dennis Ross, a former Middle East adviser to  Obama, told me, referring to the quick departure of Egyptian President Hosni  Mubarak ...
Sep 10, 2014 ... "What is going on in Washington when the FBI director, when the head of  national intelligence, the CIA, the Homeland Security secretary, tells every  member of Congress, including the president, we're about to be attacked in a  serious way because (of) the threat emanating from Syria and Iraq? "If he does ...
“If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We  want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction  program.” President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998. “Iraq is a long way from [here], but  what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a  rogue ...
1/30/01, Saddam's removal is top item of Bush's inaugural national security  meeting. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill later recalls, “It was all about finding a  way to do it. The president saying, 'Go find me a way to do this.'” [Date the public  knew: 1/10/04]. 2/11/01, “Iraq is probably not a nuclear threat at the present time.
Top U.S. intelligence officials have told "every member of Congress, including the president, we’re about to be attacked in a serious way because (of) the threat emanating from Syria and Iraq."