WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration made a forceful case for limited U.S. military action against Syria on Friday, releasing evidence the Syrian government had used chemical weapons against civilians multiple times in the past year and saying the "indiscriminate, inconceivable horror" could not go unpunished.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "a thug and a murderer" but said any military response by the United States would be carefully measured to avoid open-ended commitments.
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