east analyst in new york and from miami it was most often the executive director for the syrian emergency task force gentlemen thank you so much for joining me let's start with you was the u.s. it is moving ships toward the shores of syria and readying cruise missiles plus the secretary of state john kerry is speaking out as well as british foreign minister william hague upping the rhetoric in this intervention so my question to you is is it western intervention in syria becoming a more realistic prospect. i think that way that the secretary of state spoke today and came out sort of saying unequivocally that the regime is the perpetrator behind the chemical weapons attack and in the way that he spoke about it i think that signifies that there will be some sort of military action or a military response by the united states and international community so i think now we're coming to a point where we will see something happen but what scale that's that's another question is it a good idea. absolutely i think any time the regime in the government uses chemical weapons. weapons that should be used by no o

middle east analyst and was mostafa is the executive director for the syrian emergency task force and while the u.s. considers actions in syria in the wake of evidence suggesting the use of chemical weapons a startling new revelation from foreign policy magazine shows that the u.s. played a role in helping saddam hussein use sarin gas to defeat iranian troops back in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight years how now according to a declassified cia documents that were discovered at the national archives using satellite images u.s. intelligence officials conveyed the location of the iranian troops to iraq fully aware that hussein's military would attack with chemical weapons including sarah and a lethal nerve agent and it gets worse according to those same it declassified cia documents senior u.s. officials were being regularly informed about the scale of the nerve gas attacks they are tantamount to an official american admission of complicity and some of the most gruesome that can. nicol weapons attacks ever launched here to talk about this bombshell revelation is jamal obviously he

analyst and he was in new york and from miami was mostafa is the executive director for the syrian emergency task force and i started off by asking was if western intervention in syria is becoming a more realistic prospect. i think that way that the secretary of state spoke today and came out sort of saying unequivocally that the regime is the perpetrator behind the chemical weapons attack and in the way that he spoke about it i think that signifies that there will be some sort of military action or a military response by the united states and international community so i think now we're coming to a point where we will see something happen but what scale that's that's another question is it a good idea. absolutely i think any time the regime in a government uses chemical weapons these are weapons that should be. and if something like this is allowed to happen as it has been in the on separate occasions where it's been documented that it was the regime that has used for example in the different areas of syria this was the largest sense and if there is no response by the international community that is f

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from miami, the executive director for the syrian emergency task force.nd i started off by asking him if western intervention in syria is becoming a more rearls stick prospect. >> i think the way that the secretary of state spoke today and came out sort of saying that the regime is the perpetrator behind the chemical weapons attack and the way that he spoke about it, i think that signifies that there will be some sort of military action or military response by the united states and international community. so i think now we're coming to a point where we will see something happen. but what scale that's another question. >> sit a good idea? >> absolutely. i think any time that a regime in the government uses chemical weapons, these should be used by no one at all. and if something like this is allowed to happen as it has been in the past on separate occasions where it's been documented that it was the regime that has used sarne gas, for example, in different areas of seer yarks this has been the largest attack since. and if there is no response by the inter

crowley and david rode, and the executive director of the syrian emergency task force, a nonprofit groupregime, and the director of the middle east studies at george mason university, a big thanks to awful you for sticking around. i want to get to some of the conversation we are talking about in just a second. p.j., the president working the phones, and makes the announ announcement and then goes out for golf, and that strikes me as odd. >> i am a golfer, so i can appreciate a nice day on the golf course. i think the white house has a challenging message here, and there is no forced error throughout the week in terms of allowing the rhetoric to get ahead of the decision-making process and the political process, and so all week long it was an action is necessary, and an action is vitally important to redeem the red line, and now let's slow the enforcement of the red line down a bit. i would say -- i do think that in defense of the national security council and the process, it was circumvented in the bush administration. there were not these kinds of robust debates where the president was