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Most Americans Oppose US Intervention in Syria

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Most Americans Oppose US Intervention in Syria Prensa Latina

Washington, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) Almost 67 percent of Americans oppose the Pentagon attack against Syria and believe that President Barack Obama should require congressional authorization before any military execution.

About seven out of 10 of those surveyed by CNN and NBC News felt the White House should not make a decision before the Congress returns from summer on September 9.

The United States intervened Granada in 1983, Iraq in 1991, Haiti in 1994 and Kosovo in 1999 and in none of those occasions the presidents, Democrats or Republicans, waited for any permission from Congress.

The War Powers Resolution, passed by Congress 40 years ago, admits that the Oval Office starts a war and explains its reasons to parliamentarians 60 days later.

The poll released Friday included a thousand Americans and about 50 percent opposed military intervention in Syria, even if Obama gets permission from Congress.

Meanwhile, 44 percent of respondents specifically denied the need for a surgical strike with cruise missiles against Syria, which is one of the Pentagon's threats to Damascus.

Washington tries to blame Syria for using chemical weapons banned by the UN against civilians, but the government of President Bashar al Assad rejected the accusations and called it an insult to common sense.

The field report on the alleged chemical attack in Syria is full of caveats and unfinished material, the National Intelligence Agency of the United States admitted in a statement.

According to the New York Times and other media even there are still too many questions about who controls such weapons and the responsibility of President Al Assad in the events of August 21.

Obama said he had not yet made a decision on an air strike on Syrian territory, but reiterated the U.S. allegations against the Head of State, Bashar al Assad.

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