Three Middle Eastern nations have offered the United States use of their military assets for action against Syria, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday.
Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates are the first to do so, and other countries are expected to as well, Kerry said in a phone call to Democratic lawmakers, according to two people who were on the call.
The prospect of military strikes has resulted in about 100 defections from the Syrian military, he said on the call, according to the sources.
A total of 127 Democrats from the House of Representatives were on the call, a Democratic aide told CNN.
But the tough sell for action was clear in the call. When Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said collateral damage from a strike is expected to be low, some lawmakers questioned how officials could know that.
Two senior Arab diplomats said talks with Saudi Arabia and theUAE are preliminary, and no details have been discussed. But two leading Republican senators who met with President Barack Obama on Monday said the administration signaled increased support for Syria's opposition in a bid to shift the balance of power in Syria's 2 1/2-year-old civil war.
"There seems to be emerging from this administration a pretty solid plan to upgrade the opposition," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
And Sen. John McCain, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he was more supportive of a limited U.S. strike after the meeting, partlybecause of the prospect of that increased support. But both senators said they needed more detailed assurances that the U.S. strategy would be sufficiently strong and sustainable before they could endorse it to their colleagues.
Administration officials will be conducting classified briefings on Syria for Congress nearly every day this week. Obama willmeet Tuesday morning with House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, congressional aides said, and he'd already planned talks with the leaders of the key national security committees in the House and Senate.
One of those, House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon, told CNN the administration will have to overcome "a lot of distrust among the American people" about the intelligence that fingers Syria's government in a poison gas attack outside Damascus in late August

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Emmanuel602: I dont like this post but i just have to post it. END TIME TINZ!!!

U shuld ve just left instead ov makin this childish comment.

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at your age...smh.

I smell another Iraq

things time end...
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Mynd_44: I smell another Iraq

this wouldn't be another Iraq,the Russians won't allow it to happen,Obama is just playing politics cos he knows that he won't get the approval from the congress.

Sam xiu lee: this wouldn't be another Iraq,the Russians won't allow it to happen,Obama is just playing politics cos he knows that he won't get the approval from the congress.

Actually, the Russians don't mind if the USA attacks Syria as an individual country. They won't agree to a coalition cos it might mean bad business for their weapons selling business.

As long as Russia is still able to sell guns to Assad, let the party continue

Eobiabo: things time end...
i sorry sorry o, i sorry for syria o, i sorry sorry o o, i sooorrryy for america,# world war 3

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