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Fifth US warship joins cruise missile ships in Mediterranean
Free Beacon ^ | 8/29/13 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 08/29/2013 6:18:41 PM PDT by Nachum

A fifth U.S. warship steamed toward the eastern Mediterranean on Thursday to join four other cruise missile destroyers poised for strikes on Syria, as U.S. and allied military planning continued for a bombing campaign against Syria.

U.S. intelligence agencies, meanwhile, continued to put the finishing touches on an assessment the Obama administration expects will conclusively link Syrian government and military leaders to the deadly nerve agent strike near Damascus Aug. 21.

A defense official said the fifth destroyer, the USS Stout, would soon arrive in waters near Syria. The warship is armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Other officials familiar with intelligence reports said the White House is expected to release its intelligence assessment outlining the case against the Syrian government for the deadly nerve gas attacks near Damascus as early as Friday. The chemical rocket attack used nerve agent that killed up to 1,400 people.

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To: txhurl; nuconvert

Ping.


61 posted on 08/29/2013 7:54:38 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Nachum

Time for the International Criminal Court to arrest and try Obama for crimes against humanity!

ANTI WAR LIBERALS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!

62 posted on 08/29/2013 7:59:30 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: making the world safe for Sharia.)
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To: Mouton
I would bet that “secret” satillite launch on the west coast last night has something to do with this mess. My sense is someone wants to test some kind of new cruise missile control unit.

Or "Rods from God"

63 posted on 08/29/2013 7:59:37 PM PDT by null and void (Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? We can have both!)
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To: atc23
The dirty little cowboy warmonger Clown

This is what they called “Cowboy Diplomacy” when Bush was in office

Let’s call it “Rodeo Clown Diplomacy”...

64 posted on 08/29/2013 8:04:07 PM PDT by null and void (Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? We can have both!)
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To: Nachum

Bomb Syria, then bomb Iran. Dump every thing that emulates a Woodstock hippie with each load.


65 posted on 08/29/2013 8:47:36 PM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt.), Army National Guard, '89-'96)
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To: Nachum

I have trouble grasping the idea that we should punish a country that uses weapons of mass destruction on their own people by launching scores of weapons of mass destruction on that county’s own people.


66 posted on 08/29/2013 8:53:43 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: Oztrich Boy

The Maddox, Gulf of Tonkin.


67 posted on 08/29/2013 8:57:28 PM PDT by batterycommander (a little more rubble, a lot less trouble)
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To: Nachum

Target rich. One of these days, something’s going to get sunk or shot down.


68 posted on 08/29/2013 8:59:03 PM PDT by gotribe (Vladimir Putin is MY President)
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To: Cvengr

The homeland attacks will be whithering if obama pulls the trigger.


69 posted on 08/29/2013 9:01:09 PM PDT by gotribe (Vladimir Putin is MY President)
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To: P-Marlowe

Particularly egregious since that attack was not launched against us and Obanana will be committing an act of war against a non-belligerent, as that term relates to the U.S. Criminal.


70 posted on 08/29/2013 9:42:50 PM PDT by chulaivn66 (Semper Fidelis)
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To: chulaivn66

Didn’t stop Clinton from bombing Serbia.


71 posted on 08/29/2013 9:43:32 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

I also keep thinking of the Barry McGuire song, “Eve of Destruction.”


72 posted on 08/29/2013 9:52:35 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (It is about time we re-enact Normandy, at the shores of the Potomac.)
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To: dfwgator

Clinton the trend-setter. Looks like our first and second black _residents are two peas in a pod.


73 posted on 08/29/2013 9:53:24 PM PDT by chulaivn66 (Semper Fidelis)
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