Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) warned against an "arbitrary" focus on the use of chemical weapons in Syria as motivation for a military attack on the nation.
Issa said such a focus would seem to legitimize attacks by a government on its own people using conventional weapons.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
"If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress, and don’t trust federal judges, to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here." - Barack Obama, June 7, 2013