[ifinnegan]

Cue Ride of the Valkyries.

[Jet Jaguar]

Did Assad and his family fly out yet?

[mylife]

The UK Sun? Really?

[bgill]

Why is this our war?

[mrsmith]

HansNichols‏Verified account @HansNichols · 1h1 hour ago
I hesitate to post the Pentagon Press Parking Index (PPPI) tonight because if it’s flashing red tomorrow, I may not share. But for the next 12 hours, prospects of Assad strikes are low.

(Sad if OPSEC is that easily breeched LOL!)

Maxim A. Suchkov‏ @MSuchkov_ALM · 1h1 hour ago
#Syria UPDATE: 1. So, it appears #Russia, #US working on de-escalation options now via a number of "middle men". RUS military stated earlier it's been in touch w/ American Joint Chief of Staff over the issue & there're Rus-#NATO communication/talks via #Turkey military.

[dfwgator]

Ruh Roh!

[The_Media_never_lie]

We will not even secure our own borders. We will not even balance our own budget. The FBI is corrupt. Our congresscritters are corrupt as hell. Our intelligence agencies are spying on Americans.

Yet, we are getting involved in another foreign war, and no one attacked us?

[House Atreides]

To paraphrase the line from that iconic scene in “Treasure of the Sierra Madre”:

“Proof? We ain’t got no proof! We don’t need no proof! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ proof!”

[Midwesterner53]

Trump will call the Russians’ bluff on this and put Putin and Russian foreign policy back 25 years.

[McGruff]

In anticipation of strikes against #Syria, Lebanese politicians are warning and issuing condemnations against the use of #Lebanon’s airspace to conduct the strikes, including Walid Jumblatt, Speaker of the House Nabih Berri and Sleiman Franjieh

[McGruff]

#KuwaitAirways suspends flights to #Lebanon over ‘serious’ threats to security

[realcleanguy]

Gen’rals gathered in their masses,
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction,
Sorcerer of death’s construction
In the fields the bodies burning,
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind,
Poisoning their brainwashed minds
Oh Lord yeah
Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role for the poor, yeah
Time will tell on their power minds,
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess,
Wait ‘till their judgement day comes, yeah

I have posted this before, why are we in Syria??????

[Bobalu]

This from an earlier post I made today....

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My take on the Syria mess.

Trump is a master of leverage. He has been gaining leverage on Putin for a while now and Putin is starting to weary of it.

His oligarch pals are losing $$$ fast and so is he.

I think Putin is ready to throw in the towel and abandon both Assad and the Iranian mullahs.

Putin realizes that he, along with Trump, are despised by the global deep-state.

They are engaged in a Kabuki dance now, look for the Iranian mullahs to be overthrown very soon and this will leave Assad pretty much alone without very aggressive Russian assistance...which will not be forthcoming.

There will be an arranged exchange of missiles and the rhetoric will become pretty wild for a day or two but I think this is all close to being finished.

Trump made two important tweets this morning, both were meant for Putin.

This one is the stick...

“Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and “smart!” You shouldn’t be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!”

This one is the carrot...

“Our relationship with Russia is worse now than it has ever been, and that includes the Cold War. There is no reason for this. Russia needs us to help with their economy, something that would be very easy to do, and we need all nations to work together. Stop the arms race?”

You can discern what is going on from just these two tweets...

BTW: IMO, Gulf Cooperation Council special forces are on the ground in disguise as jihadi in both Syria and Iran and are working with Trump...they will take them down from the inside.

I predict Iran will once again become close to the US, as it was before the Iranian revolution....thank you Jimmy Carter, you damned fool!

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My concern is that Turkey is a deep-state actor and during the attack might strike Russian forces....

[fruser1]

No such thing as a surprise attack anymore?

[linear]

Could we be any more obvious about this. Good way to get folks shot down.

[tired&retired]

Wasn’t Assad a dentist.. ?

Time to return some of the pain he dished out.

[tired&retired]

How Syria’s ‘Geeky’ President Assad Went From Doctor to Dictator

by Sarah Burke / Oct.30.2015 / 6:19 AM ET / Updated Oct.30.2015 /

As the third of President Hafez Assad’s five children — and the second-eldest son — the young Bashar chose instead to become a doctor.

After graduating as an ophthalmologist at Syria’s University of Damascus in 1988, he worked at a local military hospital before moving to London to pursue an advanced degree. There, he met his future wife, British-Syrian Asma Akhras, and lived for two years out of the public eye.

“He was sort of seen as the geeky I.T. guy. He was the eye doctor, spent time in London, had the British-Syrian wife,”

[BluH2o]

Checked FlightAware24 ... only one aircraft (commercial type) in Syrian airspace at the time of this posting.

[raiderboy]

If we are this suicidal enough in order to prove to communists that we didn’t “collude” with russians to get elected with NO EVIDENCE and no attack on this nation, I want you to brace yourself Betty, for living hell.

[familyop]

Our leaders have two general choices:

1. Tighten-up with allies (including Israel) and stop the foreign commie/fascist expansionism.

2. Prepare for nuclear exchanges even more likely in the very near future.

Either way, the buildups are in progress. Commies, neo-Nazis and psychopaths, by the way, have no choice in the matter.