8-31-2013 · Syria - Loot, Pillage and Plunder for Oil presidentialfield.com/8-31-2013-syria-loot-pillage-and-plunder-oil President Barack Obama on Saturday declared that he has decided that the United States should launch limited military strikes against Syria and pressed Congress to authorize them, warning "in a world with many dangers, this menace must be confronted (the menace is the one making declarations of war once again) news.yahoo.com/obama-to-make-1-15-p-m--statement-on-syria-161723103.html "After careful deliberation (as he did on Benghazi), I have decided that the United States should take military action against Syrian regime targets," Obama said in the Rose Garden of the White House.