# Obama's Alleged Red Line Comment Regarding Syria **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 8, 2013, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-alleged-red-line-comment-regarding-syria/668330 "2013-09-08T15:35:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-alleged-red-line-comment-regarding-syria/668330/1 "2013-09-08T15:35:36Z")
Could anyone provide a contemporaneous QCL (quote cite & link) for me? I have done some searches but could not find it. TIA ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-alleged-red-line-comment-regarding-syria/668330/2 "2013-09-08T16:10:21Z")
“A red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized,” Obama said in August 2012. “That would change my calculus.” [Link.](http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/04/politics/us-syria/index.html) 5 Seconds on Google. ---
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-alleged-red-line-comment-regarding-syria/668330/3 "2013-09-08T16:18:30Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > “A red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized,” Obama said in August 2012. “That would change my calculus.” > > [Link.](http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/04/politics/us-syria/index.html) > > 5 Seconds on Google. Thank you, for some reason my searches did not hit it.