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Tillerson: The reign of the Assad family is coming to an end
NY POST ^ | April 11, 2017 | Mark Moore

Posted on 04/11/2017 6:39:10 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson issued a stern warning to Russia on Tuesday: Either stand with the US and other “like-minded” nations against Syria or side with President Bashar al-Assad and his allies Iran and the militant group Hezbollah. SEE ALSO Russia knew Syria’s chemical-weapon attack was coming: US Russia knew Syria’s chemical-weapon attack was coming: US

​​”We want to relieve the suffering of the Syrian people. Russia can be a part of that future and play an important role,” Tillerson ​told top diplomats during a meeting in Italy. “Or Russia can maintain its alliance with this group, which we believe is not going to serve Russia’s interests longer-term.”​​

​His comments came hours before he was scheduled to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow and days after the US launched a cruise missile strike against a Syrian air base after Assad attacked his citizens with chemical weapons, killing 87 people.​

Tillerson, who met with “like-minded” countries on the sidelines of the G-7 meetings of industrialized nations, said Russia failed to live up to its agreement to rid Syria of chemical weapons either through incompetence or negligence, but the distinction “doesn’t much matter to the dead.”

“We cannot let this happen again,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: assad; quagmire; russia; sostillerson; syria; tillerson; trump; trumprussia; trumpsyria
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To: Right_in_Virginia
......”Russia has called on the UN to investigate who used the chemical weapons”....

Tillerson is meeting with Putin today so hopefully between them they can come to some understanding about Syria's Chemical weapons.

We know that Russia removed all the chemical weapons Assad had..’in the areas of control Assad had’....but really how could they remove those the terrorists had stored in their areas of control. We know they confiscated chemical weapons in areas they had won the battles.

It appears we're saying this occurred via ‘distribution’ by military jets. But this has not yet been actually proved last I saw outside of an airial map we've shown of the flight path they think it took.

Until there is an investigation I don't see how blame can be put anywhere other than obvious an attack had occurred...and others, though smaller attacks, as well throughout this war have been used by terrorists when they're loosing a battle.

Either way Trump and the G-7 are simply putting pressure on Russia to make a choice regarding support to Assad. Interesting Putin said a week or so ago that his support to Assad is not without conditions........would be interesting if we knew what those conditions are.

41 posted on 04/11/2017 7:26:17 AM PDT by caww
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To: COUNTrecount

Because getting rid of Saddam Hussein, and Daffy Ghadafi, and betraying Mubarak worked just so well.
Syria ends up being another failed state like Libya and host to all sorts of terrorists.
Just effin’ brilliant.


42 posted on 04/11/2017 7:26:22 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Little Ray

Putin says expects ‘fake’ gas attacks to discredit Syria’s Assad
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/putin-says-expects-fake-gas-attacks-discredit-syrias-130950135.html


43 posted on 04/11/2017 7:28:45 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: Little Ray

And because Syria has always worked out so great on its own.

Assad will go.


44 posted on 04/11/2017 7:29:51 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: 9YearLurker

Nikki Haley is way more hawkish than Rex has been. The fact is Trump isn’t a dictator and he can’t get his people in without the Senate and we know what they’re like already (especially since Democrats will vote against anyone who is a Trump guy).


45 posted on 04/11/2017 7:30:54 AM PDT by wiseprince
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To: McGavin999

Boy there are some retarded opinions here aren’t there?


46 posted on 04/11/2017 7:38:11 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: COUNTrecount

So who replaces the Assad family? The islamic quagmire family?


47 posted on 04/11/2017 7:39:34 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Tillerson’s Moscow visit has already been downgraded and Putin who is nobodies fool is reaching out directly to other members of the G7 for support for an international inquiry into the gas attack.

Lets get some facts on the table before marching off to war.


48 posted on 04/11/2017 7:39:39 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

{{ giggles }}


49 posted on 04/11/2017 7:39:50 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Dante3

Logical fallacy - too few alternatives.

Here’s some alternatives;

Special Middle East report on the chemical attacks in Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsBchlbdJdc

CNN Syrian Gas Attack Survivor Interview (Must watch!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3542325/posts


50 posted on 04/11/2017 7:40:24 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: impimp; KC_Conspirator; Governor Dinwiddie; montag813; 9YearLurker; Psalm 144; silverleaf; ...

See post 50.


51 posted on 04/11/2017 7:44:59 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: bigbob

He is better than a failed state like Libya or Afghanistan, or an Islamic ‘Republic’ like Iran.


52 posted on 04/11/2017 7:45:47 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: COUNTrecount

Fine. Who’s going to take his place. Hey, I have an idea. Let’s install a puppet regime so 20 years down the line we can do this all over again.


53 posted on 04/11/2017 7:46:21 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Right_in_Virginia

I said an investigation should have been done from the beginning. If they found out Assad did it, make a deal with Russia that they go with us and allow us to ensure all chemical weapons are removed. If Assad does it again, slap crippling sanctions on Russia over it. They have incentive to keep in line.


54 posted on 04/11/2017 7:46:37 AM PDT by Pinkbell (Hillary's Russia Ties - http://dtforpres.blogspot.com/2016/09/hillary-clinton-and-democrats-have.htm)
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To: COUNTrecount

Regime change has worked out so well everywhere else...../x


55 posted on 04/11/2017 7:46:51 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Look for an Sunni Islamic Republic.


56 posted on 04/11/2017 7:47:52 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: KC_Conspirator

Tillerson was recommended by Cheney, Condi, and Jeb!


57 posted on 04/11/2017 7:48:13 AM PDT by Pinkbell (Hillary's Russia Ties - http://dtforpres.blogspot.com/2016/09/hillary-clinton-and-democrats-have.htm)
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To: COUNTrecount

It would be a good thing IF there were any other contenders to govern the country aside from ISIS.

The reality is, there’s not.


58 posted on 04/11/2017 7:50:13 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: COUNTrecount

To be replaced by ISIS?


59 posted on 04/11/2017 7:51:12 AM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: cymbeline

Why can’t people see this? So short sighted. Trump will not take the same route others have. By now everyone should realize Trump is different, he proves it every day. Yet so many think he’s going to repeat what others have.

The contrast in the ways of thinking are illustrated best in this debate between Paul Joseph Watson and Bill Mitchell. Notice how short sighted Paul is, and because of it his arguments are actually pretty lame IMO. The debate is great example of the difference between strategic thinking and non-strategic thinking. Trump is a strategic thinker. So many don’t understand this fact at all.

Interesting Syria debate between Bill Mitchell and Paul Joseph Watson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1zQQzZmuZk


60 posted on 04/11/2017 7:51:55 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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