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    Kerry and Hagel testify before house foreign affairs committe

    Medea Benjamin (C) of CodePink protests as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R) and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel testify during a hearing on "Syria: Weighing the Obama Administration's Response" before the House Foreign Affairs Committee September 4, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

    Kerry and Hagel testify before house foreign affairs committee

    House members took turns questioning John Kerry and Chuck Hagel about the cost of an attack,

    the role of international partners in implementing a strike and whether

    there was proof that Assad was truly behind the chemical attack on

    Syrian citizens.