President Barack Obama took questions from the press during his trip to Stockholm, Sweden ahead of the G20 economic summit in St. Petersburg Wednesday morning, during which he argued that his "red line" of chemical weapons use in Syria was indicative of a global norm of warfare that had been endorsed by Congress.
"I didn't set a red line," Obama said. "The world set a red line. The world set a red line when governments representing 98% of the world's population said the use of chemical weapons are abhorrent, and passed a treaty forbidding their use even when countries are engaged in war. Congress set a red line when it ratified that treaty. Congress set a red line when it indicated, in a piece of legislation entitled the Syria Accountability Act, that some of the horrendous things happening on the ground there need to be answered for."
"So, when I said in a press conference that my calculus about what's happening in Syria would be altered by the use of chemical weapons, which the overwhelming consensus of humanity says is wrong, that wasn't something I just kind of made up. I didn't pluck it out of thin air. There's a reason for it."
He's to address the American public by Tuesday (10TH SEP) to convince the over 60percent of Americans who are against the strike on syria and ofcourse commemorate the Sep 11 attack on the USAAny source
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