Posted on 08/27/2013 4:19:22 PM PDT by jimbo123
The U.S. could hit Syria with three days of missile strikes, perhaps beginning Thursday, in an attack meant more to send a message to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad than to topple him or cripple his military, senior U.S. officials told NBC News on Tuesday.
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But Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., an influential voice on military matters, pressed the administration to go further, calling for the U.S. and its allies to provide weapons to "the resistance on the ground."
"The important part of this whole situation is, is this just going to be just a retaliatory strike that has no lasting impact or something that changes the momentum on the ground in Syria?" McCain told reporters in Mesa, Ariz., after an event on immigration reform.
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And don't forget the sycophantic "news" media. King Zero could order them to ask Assad what he'll do after the US attacks on such-and-such a time and day in such-and-such a place. The "news" media do any and every wish King Zero utters.
Not so fast boys... breaking news:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3059526/posts
UN accuses Syrian rebels of carrying out sarin gas attacks which had been blamed on Assad’s troops.
Dailymail ^
Posted on Tuesday, August 27, 2013 7:18:48 PM by Java4Jay
A senior United Nations official has claimed that Syrian rebels may have used chemical weapons against government forces. Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals, and there are strong, concrete suspicions of the use of sarin gas, ‘This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities.’
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The U.S.A., Britain and France spent a lot on transporting everything into place and on other preparations for that, so it’s a done deal.
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