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Ron Johnson: “By 2012, Assad slaughtered somewhere between 8 to 37,000 of…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Sen. Johnson's questioning at a Foreign Relations hearing on ISIS

Published | Video Starts at 00:51

There are hundreds slaughtered when President Obama declared that Assad should step aside. Like he decided that Mubarak must go and Gaddafi must go without any plan to figure out what happens when they go. By 2012, Assad slaughtered somewhere between 8 to 37,000 of his citizens. And President Obama in August of 2012 drew a red line on use of chemical weapons. By 2013, there had been 100,000 Syrians slaughtered. (00:51–00:59)

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Asserts that Assad killed between 8,000 and 37,000 Syrians by 2012.

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