In the wake of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s voting 10 to 7 to authorize strikes on Syria, Florida Democrat Rep. Alan Grayson told “Democracy Now!” on Thursday: “I am very disturbed by this general idea that every time we see something bad in the world, we should bomb it. … The president has criticized that mindset, and now he has adopted it. It’s simply not our responsibility to act alone and punish this.”

Grayson has set up a website — DontAttackSyria.com — collecting signatures for a petition calling on Congress to deny the president permission to strike Syria.

— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.

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