President Obama gave a hastily-scheduled address on Saturday to announce his intentions to launch a "limited" military strike on Syria. "I have decided the US should take military action against regime targets Obama said the Syrian government," Obama said, adding that he would seek Congressional authorization for such a strike before launching it. Obama said that the Syrian regime had committed the "worst chemical weapons attack of the 21st century." The US government has in recent days been making the case for an international military strike against the Syrian government, accusing the regime of launching the chemical attack on its own people, killing thousands of civilians as the country's nearly two-year-long civil conflict drags on.
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