Posted on 04/13/2018 7:16:18 PM PDT by Kaslin
President Trump on Friday announced that he has approved military strikes in Syria against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The decision follows a suspected chemical gas attack from the Assad regime on a rebel-held town near the Syrian capital last weekend.
The United States launched the response, along with assurance from France and the United Kingdom, Trump stated.
French President Emmanuel Macron said the operation is currently targeting the "clandestine chemical arsenal" in Syria.
"This evening I have authorized British armed forces to conduct coordinated and targeted strikes to degrade the Syrian Regime’s chemical weapons capability and deter their use," British Prime Minister Theresa May said in a statement.
Trump's announcement immediately preceded reports of loud explosions lighting up the sky in Damascus. Syrian TV reported that Syrian air defenses have responded to the U.S.-British-French attack.
Trump said the U.S. is prepared to "sustain" pressure on Assad until he ends what the president called a criminal pattern of killing his own people with internationally banned chemical weapons. It wasn't immediately clear whether Trump meant the allied military operation would extend beyond the initial nighttime round of missile strikes.
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France and the UK.
If you want to side with ASSAD have at it.
Trump is a colossal failure at truth. We must regroup around cruz/ paul and go third party . We must prepare to defend our families. I sincerely apologize for the good things i said about this liar. I was duped by his lies.
You were never a supporter.
We should stay out of this. The Washington establishment never learns from past mistakes and will always want to involve the US in such conflicts - I’d hoped Trump would resist them.
I was 100% supporter. You go to hell. He is now a joke!!
Your full of shit and you know it. Go ahead and support the likes of Bernie and Liawatha. You have been given some time here but your posts are about as leftard as they get.
we blew some syrian sh*t up. don’t understand your hysteria.
FR is such an odd place these days.
Chill with that crap. These are missile strikes - not boots on the ground.
Hopefully a single attack and that is it.
Hey screw your crap. Why are we doing this?? Lay it out!!
You understand nothing.
By the time I was 26 I was running a Bombing Range, what the hell was your momma feeding you at that age.
Read a Book.
Maybe World History is on Kindle! Yay
Can we just not do this? Please?
I wish we never had to.
80 years in the making.
IBTZ
You're either drunk, or you're a hair-on-fire liberal.
Either way, you need to get a grip before the mods get a grip for you.
Would certain types of ordinance incinerate the gas before it's released?
I have no idea. Just asking if anyone else here knows
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