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Report: US strike on Syria to be 'significantly larger than expected'
JPost ^ | 9/6/2013 | Staff

Posted on 09/06/2013 11:25:11 AM PDT by mojito

Despite statements from both US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry that a US-led strike on Syria would be a "limited and tailored" military attack, ABC News reported on Thursday that the strike planned by Obama's national security team is "significantly larger" than most have anticipated.

According to ABC News, in additional to a salvo of 200 Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from four Navy destroyers stationed in the eastern Mediterranean, the US is also planning an aerial campaign that is expected to last two days.

This campaign potentially includes an aerial bombardment of missiles and long range bombs from US-based B-2 stealth bombers that carry satellite-guided bombs, B-52 bombers, that can carry air-launched cruise missiles and Qatar-based B-1s that carry long-range, air-to-surface missiles, both ABC News and The New York Times reported.

"This military strike will do more damage to [Syrian President Bashar] Assad's forces in 48 hours than the Syrian rebels have done in two years," a national security official told ABC News.

Meanwhile, Obama has directed the Pentagon to expand the list of potential targets in Syria following reports Assad's forces have moved troops and equipment used to employ chemical weapons in anticipation of the US-led strike against them, the Times reported on Thursday.

In order to degrade Assad's ability to use chemical weapons, the list of 50 or so major sites has to be expected, officials told the Times.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: congress; corruption; obama; syria; teaparty; tyranny
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To: PIF

Given my enlistment date was 1984, I sure hope so.


101 posted on 09/06/2013 1:23:08 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: Grampa Dave

How many Generals will stand down ?


102 posted on 09/06/2013 1:23:44 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: eyedigress

Mine was 1966.


103 posted on 09/06/2013 1:24:43 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: eyedigress

Yeah what ever happen to those peaceniks liberal human shields that wanted to go into Iraq ?


104 posted on 09/06/2013 1:25:41 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: PIF

God Bless You. I’m sorry LBJ and Richard had your back.

Reagan had mine, I was lucky.


105 posted on 09/06/2013 1:26:13 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: American Constitutionalist

Damascus is open. I’m sure plenty of rooms are available.


106 posted on 09/06/2013 1:27:19 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: MOgirl
For those who survive a nuke blast it will be a total hell to live in.
The world's economy will collapse, people will be fighting over food, water, shelter.

107 posted on 09/06/2013 1:28:32 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: lurk
our President is Robert E Lee

Robert E Lee was honorable. Reggie's Lover not so much.

108 posted on 09/06/2013 1:35:14 PM PDT by bkopto (Obama and Biden are merely symptoms of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
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To: dfwgator
Or the movie with Viggo Mortensen called " THE ROAD " where people resort to cannibalism.
Or the NBC series Revolution.

Yes folks this is real, the economy collapses, a few cities get nuked and people will be fighting for food and some will resort to cannibalism just to survive.

I do not want to survive in all that and live in a living hell.
109 posted on 09/06/2013 1:37:57 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: American Constitutionalist

Threads
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MCbTvoNrAg


110 posted on 09/06/2013 1:40:19 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
Grim.

Those who might survive in all this are those who have a specially built nuke shelter in a mountain like NORAD.
Those who think that they could survive in a hardened basement are just fooling themselves.

111 posted on 09/06/2013 1:47:24 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: glorgau

Exactly.

The Obama White House might as well FedEx a box full of attack plans ahead of time to Damascus.


112 posted on 09/06/2013 2:26:17 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be a chain of convenience stores.)
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To: eyedigress

Not to worry - they all got me good later on when I became a commercial fisherman. No one had my back then.

Thanks for your service to our formerly great country.


113 posted on 09/06/2013 2:47:12 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: EBH

You’re tracking, EBH. This is not about those poor Syrians. This is about us.


114 posted on 09/06/2013 3:19:45 PM PDT by SisterK (we are toast)
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To: mojito; mickie; flaglady47; seenenuf; seekthetruth; oswegodeee; pax_et_bonum; Maine Mariner; ...
Hey, hey, hey...Ubama-Uday

How many Christians ya gonna bomb today?

Leni

115 posted on 09/06/2013 3:25:02 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: SoFloFreeper
OBAMA SPENDS TAXPAYER MONEY AND RISKS AMERICAN LIVES SO HE CAN HELP AL-QAEDA!

Hussein Obama is working for Al Qaeda, they bought and paid for him. You weren't fool enough to think Wall Street financed Obama, did you?

His name is Hussein, get it?

116 posted on 09/06/2013 10:02:05 PM PDT by politicianslie (Our first Muslim President laughs at you. Are you waiting for NBC to tell you who he is?)
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To: American Constitutionalist

Or a musical interpretation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV1-gjkFfog


117 posted on 09/06/2013 11:17:10 PM PDT by Paul R. (We are in a break in an Ice Age. A brief break at that...)
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