Does anyone here really think that President Obama would have submitted the Syria

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10. What if that was the plan all along?

Obama's advisers KNEW that Americans would be against any intervention. The Democrats ESPECIALLY know this - they pummeled the GOP in 2006 and 2008 by going antiwar. Nothing has changed.

GOPers and Democratic hawks seem to want more war than Obama's offering them with limited strikes, so a vote is a strange thing to add to the mix

McCain, Graham Say Obama’s Syria Plan Falls Short

August 31 2013.

WASHINGTON–Two key Republican Senate lawmakers gave notice that despite President Barack Obama‘s pledge to seek congressional authorization for a potential military strike against Syria, they wouldn’t support a limited attack that fell short of changing the momentum on the battlefield.

The statement by Sens. John McCain (R., Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) demonstrates clearly the challenges the president faces in winning congressional authorization for his plans to punish the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for allegedly using chemical weapons in an attack last week.

“We cannot in good conscience support isolated military strikes in Syria that are not part of an overall strategy that can change the momentum on the battlefield, achieve the president’s stated goal of Assad’s removal from power, and bring an end to this conflict, which is a growing threat to our national security interests,” the senators said in a joint statement.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/31/mccain-graham-say-obamas-syria-plan-falls-short/