Barack's Goals

From Time Magazine - 

3 Things Obama Must Accomplish In Tonight’s Syria Speech

 

The President must now sell an intervention to the American people that he did not want to launch unilaterally. He is likely to evoke the moral outrage of gassing children, even though he has made clear that his military goal is not to stop the loss of life in the Syrian civil war. He must implore Congress for a swift vote, even as he has signed off on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s decision to hold off on action in that chamber until the Russian offer can be explored. He will again ask for Congress to approve the strike, even though he maintains that he does not need the permission of Congress to strike.

Uh-huh. 
  
And this -

For more two weeks, the Obama administration has briefed congressional lawmakers in both open and classified settings on what the intelligence community believes happened on August 21, when the Assad regime allegedly killed more than 1,400 in a sarin gas attack. But very little of that information has been made public to the American people, who remember the intelligence failures before the Iraq war. The White House maintains that for those who have received the classified briefing, the intelligence is incontrovertible. 

Yup. Sure.  Give us the mushroom approach.  Always worked before.....