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Is the Trump administration preparing to strike Russian and Iranian forces in Syria?
Great Power War ^ | 9/10/18 | USA Features

Posted on 09/10/2018 7:46:06 AM PDT by SleeperCatcher

A report on Monday claimed that U.S. intelligence has determined that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has already made a decision to use chemical weapons against enemy positions in Idlib as his forces, combined with Russian airpower, attack the last rebel stronghold following seven years of civil war.

The Wall Street Journal [source], citing unnamed intelligence sources, even noted the type of gas Assad has allegedly chosen: Chlorine gas, which was first used in World War I and has the effect of an asphyxiation compound.

In addition, according to sources who spoke to the WSJ, President Donald Trump has also reportedly threatened to intervene militarily with a massive attack against the Assad regime if he uses gas and other tactics that result in a massacre. U.S. officials and diplomats are concerned about the extensive loss of life among the civilian population, especially.

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1 posted on 09/10/2018 7:46:06 AM PDT by SleeperCatcher
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No.


2 posted on 09/10/2018 7:47:15 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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Articles with a question mark at the end of the title usually are not worth reading.

IMO


3 posted on 09/10/2018 7:50:14 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: SleeperCatcher

If he does, he loses my support. How can he not by now have figured out that the Deep State has their own global agenda?


4 posted on 09/10/2018 7:50:48 AM PDT by grania (It's Them vs Us)
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To: SleeperCatcher

“A report on Monday claimed that U.S. intelligence has determined that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has already made a decision to use chemical weapons....”

Is that a Deep State/Globalist motivated fake assessment?

Who can really trust US Intelligence? Not me.


5 posted on 09/10/2018 8:00:00 AM PDT by laplata (Leftists/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: SleeperCatcher

If Turkey Invades Iraq from behind will Greece help?


6 posted on 09/10/2018 8:01:44 AM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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That’s like you and me getting in a fistfight over Hillary’s affections.


7 posted on 09/10/2018 8:06:02 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: SleeperCatcher

No


8 posted on 09/10/2018 8:08:22 AM PDT by DarthVader ("The biggest misconception on Free Republic is that the Deep State is invulnerable")
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To: SleeperCatcher
U.S. intelligence has determined that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has already made a decision to use chemical weapons against enemy positions in Idlib as his forces, combined with Russian airpower, attack the last rebel stronghold following seven years of civil war.

Yes Assad, with victory absolutely certain, after seven years, will use chlorine gas on trapped children, bullets and bombs will simply not do.

9 posted on 09/10/2018 8:13:12 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: SleeperCatcher

I heard Assad bayonets Belgian babies, and throws Kuwaiti babies out of incubators. He also attacked our destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, and threw Kuwaiti babies out of incubators. The Russians helped him do ir... we must attack Russia militarily.

All we have to do is kick in the door and the whole rotten house will cave in. I wouldn’t even take winter clothes, we’ll be done in a couple of months.


10 posted on 09/10/2018 8:13:37 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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If the president would like to end his political future he would attack Syria/Russia/ Iran for killing Isis !! This is beyond obsurd.


11 posted on 09/10/2018 8:16:11 AM PDT by raiderboy (Trump promised “shut down the government” in September; if no wall!!)
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To: DesertRhino

Yep. Russian soldiers are too drunk to be much of a fighting force. Signed, The Ghost of Borodino.


12 posted on 09/10/2018 8:16:25 AM PDT by JusPasenThru (The only reason unemployment is dropping is because everyone is working two jobs.)
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To: laplata

The report is not trustworthy.
Any secretive chemical attacks allegedly would have lityle or no military value and would only give the Bolton/Haley axis the excuse they need to urge an attack.


13 posted on 09/10/2018 8:17:18 AM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: SleeperCatcher

This is a farce.

In WWI the Germans mounted a phosgene attack at Ypres. “Phosgene was a potent killing agent, deadlier than chlorine. In the first combined chlorine–phosgene attack by Germany, against British troops at Wieltje near Ypres, Belgium on 19 December 1915, 88 tons of the gas were released from around 1100 cylinders causing 1069 casualties and 69 deaths.” The Germans used it is an advantageous damp and humid European environment.

But Germans are hopelessly challenged by technology and struggle with efficiency. The noted efficiency experts of Assad’s Syrian army, will be able to drop 2 or 3 cylinders from a helicopter. And that 3 or 400 pounds of gas in a windy desert environment will probably kill 20 or 30 people. The Syrians will accomplish the same results as Germany only using 0.5% of the gas.

OR...could it be the camel jockey white helmets (who we fund) have all kinds of Chlorine products around them and let the WSJ know they “expect” a chlorine attack.

This is a farce, a laughable farce. And I cannot believe Trump falls for it every time. The intel people who assure him it’s true also swear he’s a Russian spy. It’s just retarded.


14 posted on 09/10/2018 8:32:53 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: laplata

“Who can really trust US Intelligence? Not me.”

Hey you ingrate. Howzabout thanking the intellligence community? After all, “if you could only really know what they did for us, but alas, the stories can never be told”.
And didn’t they let us know Trump is a Kremlin agent?
And didn’t they know best that in Libya it was best for us to switch sides and JOIN isis? I know I would have NEVER thought of that!

I don’t want to live in a world where we cannot trust the CIA.


15 posted on 09/10/2018 8:38:49 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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“If Turkey Invades Iraq from behind will Greece help?”

You have to be very careful of a fire when you cook Turkey in Greece. Keep the kids back when you do. I think it’s 3 minutes a pound.


16 posted on 09/10/2018 8:41:26 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: laplata
“A report on Monday claimed that U.S. intelligence has determined that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has already made a decision to use chemical weapons....”

I like how lefties now trust everything the intel community says and demand pre-emptive wars based on their say-so. In 2003, not so much.

IF Assad uses chem weapons, THEN you respond. Not before based on newspaper reports that unnamed intel sources claiming he will.

17 posted on 09/10/2018 8:42:28 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: SleeperCatcher

Israel might hit Iranian forces in the entire area however.


18 posted on 09/10/2018 8:47:07 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: DesertRhino

I am pretty sure that sources and intelligence agencies “report” that Assad eats the babies with carrots and potatoes.


19 posted on 09/10/2018 8:52:50 AM PDT by raiderboy (Trump promised “shut down the government” in September; if no wall!!)
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20 posted on 09/10/2018 9:28:53 AM PDT by laplata (Leftists/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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