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Trump ends covert CIA program to arm anti-Assad rebels in Syria, a move sought by Moscow
washingtonpost.com/ ^ | July 19 at 5:41 PM | Greg Jaffe and Adam Entous

Posted on 07/19/2017 11:58:36 PM PDT by 867V309



President Trump has decided to end the CIA’s covert program to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels battling the government of Bashar al-Assad


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cia; ciaarmsenemy; graham; mccain; syria; syriarebels
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To: McGruff

So true. The rebels are just as bad .


21 posted on 07/20/2017 1:24:51 AM PDT by boycott
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To: ifinnegan

Notice the “a move sought by Moscow”.

leftists hate russia partly because russia is fighting the islamb rats, while the US establishment just pretends to do so.


22 posted on 07/20/2017 1:38:29 AM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: 867V309

The Trump Haters who train jihadists in Syria should be shut down.

Let the Saudis pay for it with their own money. I would not be surprised if they foot the bill in the future.


23 posted on 07/20/2017 2:47:20 AM PDT by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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To: ifinnegan
Remember when liberals were anti-war? And when those who believed in global unity considered war-mongering European bankers and elitists to be bad guys?

I hope that President Trump has regained his voice and realizes that he has to take all the individual action he can, and sticks to the principles that got him elected.

24 posted on 07/20/2017 2:55:43 AM PDT by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: 867V309

> a move sought by Moscow

A move opposed by ISIS.


25 posted on 07/20/2017 2:57:00 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

“Moderate” Syrian rebels exist only to channel war material to the remnants of ISIS, and with the mission of ISIS now very much in doubt, time to shut this supply chain down.

Compromise and regard for the individual do not exist in the doctrines of Islam, as expressed in the Koran. To turn to either of these concepts is considered a sign of weakness by the TRUE Soldiers of Allah.

Bearded men with burning eyes already have strong opinions, and are not about to be talked out of those beliefs.


26 posted on 07/20/2017 3:31:09 AM PDT by alloysteel (The difference between Illinois and Venezuela, is that toilet tissue is still available in Illinois.)
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To: 867V309

It’s good that the funding to the CIA rebels is ending. They were largely worthless, or al Qaeda cutouts.

Past that, the article is typical Washington ComPost crap. Quoting some leftist idiots and former Obama officials.

They quote Charles Lister (senior fellow at the Middle East Institute) who is a total phony. He constantly writer stuff that is just not true, and he writes as if he actually had experience in Syria.


27 posted on 07/20/2017 4:04:24 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: 867V309

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28 posted on 07/20/2017 4:20:52 AM PDT by GOPJ ( MSM Snowflakes: if you don't like President Trump's tweets don't read 'em.)
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To: 867V309

many people with heads screwed on right have favored the end of funding of these people who hate America and have been active in the genocide of Syrian Christians.


29 posted on 07/20/2017 4:32:17 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: 867V309

I may be wrong, but I believe our funding of the “rebels” is what fueled the devastating Syrian civil war that has resulted in countless deaths and the migration crisis that has engulfed Europe.

And the only thing WaPo can say is that ending it is helping Russia?

Anything to advance their crazy narrative.


30 posted on 07/20/2017 4:38:17 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: snarkytart

It is something the post would have been ripping a Republican admin for creating. (Iran Contra)


31 posted on 07/20/2017 4:40:25 AM PDT by pas
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Exactly. And why are we trying to overthrow a government that has attacked neither us nor its neighbors, based only on unproved false flag allegations of poison gas use?


32 posted on 07/20/2017 4:47:24 AM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: 867V309
happening just as Mccain, the US and CIA's biggest supporter of ISIS, is incapicitated. I doubt this is coincidence.

Yeah I bet he is turning over in his death bed

33 posted on 07/20/2017 4:59:08 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: Darksheare
This is the program that ran weapons through Benghazi

Yep another Obama/Hillary/McShame gun running from Libya to Turkey to arm these animals for Mcshame's and his girlfriend Linda's war in Syria.

May they ALL rest in pieces

34 posted on 07/20/2017 5:02:44 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: 867V309
President Trump has decided to end the CIA’s covert program to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels battling the government of Bashar al-Assad

If the word "covert" is in the headline of the Washington Post, the program is not "covert" in any ordinary sense of the word.
35 posted on 07/20/2017 5:12:45 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: 867V309

Stopping the arming and funding of Isis Muslim terrorist murder gang — good ! ( this gives us hope he will stop the arming and funding if the PLO/PA/Abbas Muslim terrorist murder gang now, too ). Drain the swamp Donald! Drain the swamp!


36 posted on 07/20/2017 5:14:37 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: 867V309

How can you have a brain tumor when you don’t even have a brain?


37 posted on 07/20/2017 5:38:09 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: 867V309

Funny, I thought this was a move sought by Americans.


38 posted on 07/20/2017 5:54:19 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: McGruff

keep posting this truth from trump


39 posted on 07/20/2017 6:04:15 AM PDT by vooch (America First)
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To: 867V309

Obama’s Syrian Fast & Furious Op comes to an end.


40 posted on 07/20/2017 6:51:53 AM PDT by moovova
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