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Barack Obama's Full Speech on Syria

(CNN Spanish ) - This is a full transcript of the speech to the country of U.S. President Barack Obama on the situation in Syria ruled Tuesday. The text was provided by the White House:

Compatriots , tonight I want to talk about Syria - why it matters and what path we will follow from now on.

During the past two years , what began as a series of peaceful protests against the repressive regime of Bashar al- Assad has become a brutal civil war . More than 100,000 people have been killed and millions have fled the country. During that time, the United States has worked with its partners to provide humanitarian support , help moderate opposition to forge a political solution. But I have resisted calls to military action because we can not resolve the civil war of another nation by force, particularly after a decade of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan.

However, the situation changed dramatically on August 21 , when the government of lethal gases Assad killed over a thousand people , including hundreds of children . The images in this slaughter are outrageous . Men, women , and children lying dead in row after being suffocated by toxic gases , others threw away foaming at the mouth , gasping for breath , a father pleading with his dead children rise up and walk . On that horrible night , the world watched in dreadful detail how terrible are chemical weapons and why the vast majority of humanity has prohibited them , declaring its use a crime against humanity and a violation of the laws of war.

It was not always so. In the First World War, American soldiers were among the thousands who died from lethal gases in the trenches of Europe. During World War II , the Nazis made use of toxic gases to perpetrate the horror of the Holocaust. Since these weapons can kill on a large scale , without distinction between soldiers and children , the civilized world has spent a century partnership to prohibit them. And in 1997 , the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved an international agreement that condemns the use of chemical weapons , who have now joined 189 other governments representing 98 percent of humanity .

On August 21 , these rules are violated , as well as our sense of common humanity. No one disputes that used chemical weapons in Syria. The world witnessed thousands of videos , pictures taken with cell phones and counts the attack on social media , the humanitarian organizations told stories of how hospitals were full of people who had symptoms after inhaling poisonous gases.

We also know that the Assad regime was responsible. We understand that in the days before August 21 , the staff in charge of chemical weapons Assad was prepared to make an attack near an area in which sarin gas mixture . Gas masks distributed among his troops . Then fired rockets from an area controlled by the regime to eleven neighborhoods occupied by opposition forces that the regime has been trying to eliminate. Shortly after those rockets made impact, the gas spread and hospitals filled with wounded and dying people . We know that senior army Assad analyzed the results of the attack and that the regime increased the bombing of the same neighborhoods in the coming days . We also analyzed blood samples and hair of people in place that tested positive for sarin .

When dictators commit atrocities , confident that the world will look the other way until the horrible images disappear from memory. But these things happened , you can not deny the facts . Now , the question is what are willing to do about the United States and the international community. Because what happened to these people - these children - not just a violation of international law, but also is a threat to our security.

Let me explain why. Without action, the Assad regime will see no reason to abandon the use of chemical weapons . As will undermine the prohibition against these weapons , other tyrants have no reason to think twice before purchasing toxic gases and use them. Over time, our troops will return to face the possibility of chemical warfare on the battlefield and they might be easier for terrorist organizations to obtain these weapons and use them to attack civilians .

If fighting spreads beyond the borders of Syria , these weapons could threaten allies such as Turkey , Jordan and Israel. And do not fight chemical weapons prohibitions weaken against other weapons of mass destruction and could encourage Assad 's ally , Iran , you must decide if you ignore international law to build a nuclear weapon or take a more peaceful path .

That's not a world we must accept. This is what is at stake here , and it is the reason that , after careful deliberation , I decided last week that it is in the interests of national security of the United States respond to the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime through a military attack focused. The purpose of this attack would deter Assad using chemical weapons , reduce the ability of your system to use and make it clear to the world that we will not tolerate their use.

This is my opinion as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces , but I'm also the President of the oldest constitutional democracy in the world. Therefore, although I have the authority to order military attacks , I felt that as there is no direct or imminent threat to our security , the right thing was to bring this debate to Congress. I think our democracy is stronger when the President acts with congressional support , and I also believe that the United States acts more effectively on the outside when we are united.

And this is particularly true after a decade in which it has empowered the President more and more power to make decisions relating to war and has placed a growing burden on the shoulders of our troops, while maintaining a representatives of the people out of the crucial decisions about when to use force.

Now, I know that after the terrible losses in Iraq and Afghanistan , the idea of any military action , no matter how limited , will not be popular. After all , I've spent four and a half trying to end wars , not start them. Our troops are out of Iraq. Our troops are coming back from Afghanistan. And I know that all of us in Washington want , in particular , I - that we focus on the task of building our nation here at home : giving employment to the people , educating our children and grow our middle class.

No wonder then that you do tough questions about this. So let me answer some of the most important questions that have made me and other members of Congress have read in letters that I have sent you.

First, many of you have asked, " Does not this take us to the brink of another war? " One man wrote

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