Posted on 04/06/2017 6:18:08 PM PDT by navysealdad
The United States launched dozens of cruise missiles Thursday night at a Syrian airfield in response to what it believes was the Syrian government's use of banned chemical weapons blamed for having killed at least 100 people on Tuesday, U.S. military officials told NBC News.
The U.S. military fired at least 50 Tomahawk missiles intended for a single target — Ash Sha'irat in Homs province in western Syria, the officials said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Australian Minister of Defense:
..... We ‘Support’ ‘Highly Targeted’ US strike in Syria “.... the ‘highly targeted’ US strike on Syria was designed to limit regimes ability to conduct more chemical weapon attacks”..
President Trump is sending a clear message:
..... the apology tour is over!.....
We did not bomb Syria.. or storm Syria.... We attached ‘specific targets’ IN Syria because they launched a chemical attack on Syrian civilians.
They’re all going to blame each other for the gas attacks...the idea is the US is not going to stand by and let it happen...already foreign leaders are declaring they’re support in this targetted attack....
UK government says.....
...” US missile strike on Syria is “appropriate response to the barbaric chemical weapons attack”.......
> Let’s just say I trust Trump to be acting with a moral compass in this.
If he is behaving morally then he has been fooled in a big way.
If he has not been fooled, he is not behaving morally.
Either way this is not good for the American people.
Statement from Pentagon Spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis on U.S. strike in Syria
Press Operations
Release No: NR-126-17
April 6, 2017
...At the direction of the president, U.S. forces conducted a cruise missile strike against a Syrian Air Force airfield today at about 8:40 p.m. EDT (4:40 a.m., April 7, in Syria). The strike targeted Shayrat Airfield in Homs governorate, and was in response to the Syrian government's chemical weapons attack April 4 in Khan Sheikhoun, which killed or injured hundreds of innocent Syrian people, including women and children.
The strike was conducted using Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAMs) launched from the destroyers USS Porter and USS Ross in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. A total of 59 TLAMs targeted aircraft, hardened aircraft shelters, petroleum and logistical storage, ammunition supply bunkers, air defense systems, and radars. As always, the U.S. took extraordinary measures to avoid civilian casualties and to comply with the Law of Armed Conflict. Every precaution was taken to execute this strike with minimal risk to personnel at the airfield.
The strike was a proportional response to Assad's heinous act. Shayrat Airfield was used to store chemical weapons and Syrian air forces. The U.S. intelligence community assesses that aircraft from Shayrat conducted the chemical weapons attack on April 4. The strike was intended to deter the regime from using chemical weapons again.
Russian forces were notified in advance of the strike using the established deconfliction line. U.S. military planners took precautions to minimize risk to Russian or Syrian personnel located at the airfield.
We are assessing the results of the strike. Initial indications are that this strike has severely damaged or destroyed Syrian aircraft and support infrastructure and equipment at Shayrat Airfield, reducing the Syrian Government's ability to deliver chemical weapons. The use of chemical weapons against innocent people will not be tolerated.
Very interesting.
Finnegan - most of those comments you read on this thread are from ignorant people with no understanding of these issues. Ignore them.
What a snowflake you are.
I hate this but you don’t let Muslims start lobbing WMDs about. You zap them quick with a hammer so they know not to continue with such things.
President Trump, what the hell were you thinking?
You decided to react to one of the most obvious false flags in history?
I’m hoping there’s more to this than meets the eye, because right now you look like an angry blind man with a sawn-off shotgun.
Chlorine gas - Someone bleached the place.
Oh stop.
Not anywhere near.
And you misspelled your screen name.
You forgot the r.
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