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Trump announces U.S. military strikes in Syria
Fox News.com ^
| April 13, 2018
| Matt Richardson
Posted on 04/13/2018 7:16:18 PM PDT by Kaslin
President Trump on Friday announced that he has approved military strikes in Syria against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The decision follows a suspected chemical gas attack from the Assad regime on a rebel-held town near the Syrian capital last weekend.
The United States launched the response, along with assurance from France and the United Kingdom, Trump stated.
French President Emmanuel Macron said the operation is currently targeting the "clandestine chemical arsenal" in Syria.
"This evening I have authorized British armed forces to conduct coordinated and targeted strikes to degrade the Syrian Regimes chemical weapons capability and deter their use," British Prime Minister Theresa May said in a statement.
Trump's announcement immediately preceded reports of loud explosions lighting up the sky in Damascus. Syrian TV reported that Syrian air defenses have responded to the U.S.-British-French attack.
Trump said the U.S. is prepared to "sustain" pressure on Assad until he ends what the president called a criminal pattern of killing his own people with internationally banned chemical weapons. It wasn't immediately clear whether Trump meant the allied military operation would extend beyond the initial nighttime round of missile strikes.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Syria
KEYWORDS: braking; iran; justwokeup; nevertrumpertrolls; northkorea; ripliberaltroll; russia; syria; zot; zotzotzot
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To: Kaslin
the Saudi pipeline war rages on.
Europe wants it.
Russia doesn’t.
The rest is easy to figure out.
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posted on
04/13/2018 9:54:44 PM PDT
by
joshua c
(To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
To: MarvinStinson
I do not...
I am waiting this out to see what the long term goal is. There seems to be much going on behind the scenes that is over our pay-grade.
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posted on
04/13/2018 9:55:44 PM PDT
by
Bikkuri
To: Vermont Lt
weird argument.
the lack of a reason discernible by you is utterly unrelated to the actual event. he also didn’t ask your permission. that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
To: zeestephen
in that event, the better question is what is putin's plan after he responds with limited strikes against the US and half of Europe?
To: frnewsjunkie
>>I am done with laura Ingram!!!!!! How dare she!!<<
Uhhhhh? And this relates to this thread how???
To: MarvinStinson
no one supports that because it was an idiotic thing to suggest.
To: KingofZion
"Why didnt Brit and Frogs contribute some bombers?"
Because it was more helpful for them to commit some ships, in case some nukes were needed. By the way, your username is idolatrous blasphemy.
127
posted on
04/13/2018 10:12:41 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: eyedigress
>>You were never a supporter.<<
And he's gone, praise God!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpR8r0D2EyY
To: EliRoom8
because, as was explained, she lost it on her show over the air strikes. jesus, no one reads the threads anymore before they start lobbing in grenades.
To: Romulus
"France and the UK are now Islamist countries. Whats your point?"
Russia has a higher percentage of Muslims in it than France or the UK, and most of Russia's allies are Islamist nations.
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posted on
04/13/2018 10:14:51 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: JohnBrowdie
Well a sizable part of the Presidents base is pissed. She is not speaking for herself alone.
To: Delta 21; MarvinStinson; Magnum44; Chode
"He's dead, Jim."
That's good, but all of his pro-enemy friends here should be banned, too.
132
posted on
04/13/2018 10:17:32 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: JohnBrowdie
Well a sizable part of the Presidents base is pissed. She is not speaking for herself alone.
To: All
134
posted on
04/13/2018 10:20:42 PM PDT
by
Drago
To: Kaslin
Why is Fox dredging up Judith Miller?! Are they that short of people to discuss things with tonight?
135
posted on
04/13/2018 10:21:45 PM PDT
by
Reno89519
(No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
To: MarvinStinson; eyedigress
"You need to hook up with your fellow retards.
You actually posted:"
Kurds are in Iraq.
There are Kurds in Iraq. There were more, though, before Assad's buddy, Saddam Hussein, gassed so many of them to death.
There's no sense in cheering the Russia/Iran/Syria/North Korea Evil Axis against the U.S.A. Those bastards have been threatening to nuke us all along, and anti-American cowards pushing the supine posture here are the reason for those threats and nuclear buildups.
136
posted on
04/13/2018 10:24:17 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: The Toll
she was shrill and nearly irrational. anyone who even contemplates abandoning the president because he had the stones to enforce the red line against WMD (a problem created by BHO because he’s such a massive **ssy) with a limited air strike joined by most of the european powers was never really on board to begin with.
they need to go hang out with the truthers and freaks that think the moon landings were staged.
To: The Toll
"Well a sizable part of the Presidents base is pissed. She is not speaking for herself alone."
Outright Liberaltarians, with all of their posterior flexibility, only make up about 2% of the population--that is, those who haven't already died from AIDS. And they only claim to be conservatives on discussion boards before putting in their usual votes for Democrats.
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posted on
04/13/2018 10:28:55 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: Drago
are you somehow in love with unexploded ordnance? that’s the only thing we’ve lost here; a few hundred bombs and missiles.
To: familyop
your post makes me wish FR had a “like” button.
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