Trump Launches Missile Strikes on Syria After Chemical Attack

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-14/trump-to-make-statement-on-syria-as-expectations-of-strike-grow
Published: Apr 13, 2018
Author: Jennifer Jacobs, Donna Nabu-Nasr, Daniel
Post Date: 2018-04-13 21:29:24 by A K A Stone
Views: 14724

President Donald Trump said he launched missile strikes on Syria in retaliation for an apparent chemical attack by the regime of Bashar al-Assad on a rebel town.

Trump said the missile strikes, which were focused on chemical weapons sites, would be carried out in coordination with France and the U.K. and he made clear that the U.S. is prepared to sustain the strikes until Syria stops using chemical weapons.

The president also blasted Iraq and Russia for supporting Assad’s regime, particularly in the wake of the chemical attack.

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#7: A Pole    To: GrandIsland, paraclete (#6)

Last week, Trump is in bed with Putin. Today, he’s going to war with Russia. Shut your fear mongering propaganda shit spreader.

I have no clue what you are trying to say.

Could you translate it into plain English so it will be easier for me?

A Pole posted on 2018-04-14 08:02:07   Reply   Private Reply


#8: paraclete    To: GrandIsland (#6)

Your permission wasn’t needed.

I don't give you permission, I applaud Trump for taking on the issue, but there is a lot of fake news and intrigue out there, Just the sort of thing Putin would do to entrap Trump into another middle east war

paraclete posted on 2018-04-14 08:08:10   Reply   Private Reply


#9: A Pole    To: paraclete, sneakypete, Tooconservative (#8)

Just the sort of thing Putin would do to entrap Trump into another middle east war

What if Skripal case was a Putin's provocation? And instead of poisoning Skripals with the most powerful poison in the world, Skripals took only one pill each to simulate coma for a few days?

If so, Brits swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.

A Pole posted on 2018-04-14 08:28:39   Reply   Private Reply


#10: Tooconservative    To: A Pole (#9)

What if Skripal case was a Putin's provocation? And instead of poisoning Skripals with the most powerful poison in the world, Skripals took only one pill each to simulate coma for a few days?

Licking the boots of your former Soviet masters should not be on display like this.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Tooconservative posted on 2018-04-14 08:35:30   Reply   Private Reply


#11: A Pole    To: Tooconservative (#10)

What if Skripal case was a Putin's provocation? And instead of poisoning Skripals with the most powerful poison in the world, Skripals took only one pill each to simulate coma for a few days?

Licking the boots of your former Soviet masters should not be on display like this.

I don't understand your logic. To wonder if this attack was a faint and ruse conceived with cunning is to lick someone boots?

Well, if your reaction is really an expression of a typical Western mindset, that their opponents must be primitive simpletons, then have a good luck.

Sun Tzu said:

"There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent."

Arthur Schopenhauer:

"A last trick is to become personal, insulting and rude as soon as you perceive that your opponent has the upper hand. In becoming personal you leave the subject altogether, and turn your attack on the person by remarks of an offensive and spiteful character. This is a very popular trick, because everyone is able to carry it into effect.”

A Pole posted on 2018-04-14 09:27:18   Reply   Private Reply


#12: Tooconservative    To: A Pole (#11)

Even Joseph Goebbels would be embarrassed over what you write.

Tooconservative posted on 2018-04-14 09:30:52   Reply   Private Reply


#13: A Pole    To: Tooconservative (#12)

Even Joseph Goebbels would be embarrassed over what you write.

I have no clue what you are taking about. Clearly something got you very agitated.

What are you trying to say?

A Pole posted on 2018-04-14 09:48:07   Reply   Private Reply


#14: buckeroo    To: A K A Stone (#0)

Why is the USA involved in Syria? We are not dealing with ISIS now.

buckeroo posted on 2018-04-14 10:25:49   Reply   Private Reply


#15: GrandIsland    To: A Pole (#9)

What if

What if your aunt had balls? She’d be your uncle.

GrandIsland posted on 2018-04-14 10:54:41   Reply   Private Reply


#16: GrandIsland    To: A Pole (#13)

I have no clue what you are taking about.

You said the same thing to me on the same thread. You can’t be that fucking stupid, can you?

GrandIsland posted on 2018-04-14 10:56:19   Reply   Private Reply


#17: Deckard    To: A K A Stone (#0)

President Donald Trump said he launched missile strikes on Syria in retaliation for an apparent false-flag chemical attack by the regime of Bashar al-Assad operatives of the deep state on a rebel town.

Pretty sure it went something like this:

Trump: "The missiles are flying - Hallelujah!"

Deckard posted on 2018-04-14 11:31:13   Reply   Private Reply


#18: GrandIsland    To: Deckard (#17)

False flags

You’re off your lithium again. lol

GrandIsland posted on 2018-04-14 12:49:39   Reply   Private Reply


#19: sneakypete    To: A Pole (#9)

What if Skripal case was a Putin's provocation? And instead of poisoning Skripals with the most powerful poison in the world, Skripals took only one pill each to simulate coma for a few days?

True,after all,the Soviets and their KGB are known worldwide as the friends of mankind who would surely do nothing like that,huh?

Next thing you know,unfair people will be accusing them of having labor camps in Siberia,instead of luxury cold-weather accommodations for deserving Soviet citizens,right,comrade?

sneakypete posted on 2018-04-14 14:26:21   Reply   Private Reply


#20: sneakypete    To: Tooconservative (#10)

Licking the boots of your former Soviet masters should not be on display like this.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Au contraire mon amis! He wants to make sure he gets full boot-licking credit if the Soviets come back into power.

sneakypete posted on 2018-04-14 14:29:39   Reply   Private Reply


#21: sneakypete    To: A Pole, tooconservative (#13)

I have no clue what you are taking about.

The doers are always the last to know.

sneakypete posted on 2018-04-14 14:30:46   Reply   Private Reply


#22: sneakypete    To: buckeroo (#14)

Why is the USA involved in Syria?

Excellent question!

Because we CAN?

sneakypete posted on 2018-04-14 14:31:30   Reply   Private Reply


#23: Jameson    To: A K A Stone (#0)

Trump Launches Missile Strikes on Syria After Comey Book launch and 20/20 interview........

Jameson posted on 2018-04-14 15:26:40   Reply   Private Reply


#24: Deckard    To: Jameson (#23)

Trump Launches Missile Strikes on Syria After Comey Book launch and 20/20 interview........

What? You are saying that the timing of this launch was to take the heat off of Trump and get the news media to focus on something else?

Nah...that's never been done by a President before. Certainly not Clinton, Obama and Bush. < / sarcasm >

Deckard posted on 2018-04-14 15:51:17   Reply   Private Reply


#25: Deckard    To: sneakypete, buckeroo (#22)

Why is the USA involved in Syria?

Excellent question!

Because we CAN?

Because we "can" is not a good enough reason.

How about because we "should"?

In this case we should not. Why would Assad gas his own people only days after both Russia and the U.S. indicated that they would withdraw their troops from Syria?

Deckard posted on 2018-04-14 15:55:36   Reply   Private Reply


#26: A Pole    To: Jameson (#23)

Because we CAN?

OK, Sneaky. Can you tell me why me why men die earlier than women?

A Pole posted on 2018-04-14 15:59:23   Reply   Private Reply


#27: Jameson    To: A Pole (#26)

Can you tell me why me why men die earlier than women?

I really don't think you were replying to me...

but the answer is: Because they WANT to........

Jameson posted on 2018-04-14 16:25:06   Reply   Private Reply


#28: Jameson    To: Deckard (#24)

Nah...that's never been done by a President before. Certainly not Clinton, Obama and Bush. < / sarcasm >

Same shit, different day....

Jameson posted on 2018-04-14 16:26:59   Reply   Private Reply


#29: sneakypete    To: A Pole (#26)

Can you tell me why me why men die earlier than women?

Sure. We live with women.

sneakypete posted on 2018-04-14 17:54:57   Reply   Private Reply


#30: sneakypete    To: Jameson (#27)

but the answer is: Because they WANT to........

A little more direct than my answer,but essentially the same.

sneakypete posted on 2018-04-14 17:55:40   Reply   Private Reply


#31: sneakypete    To: Deckard (#25)

Because we "can" is not a good enough reason.

Ok,I thought you were asking for a reason,not a justification.

sneakypete posted on 2018-04-14 17:58:19   Reply   Private Reply


#32: rlk    To: paraclete (#1)

I sure hope he has the evidence to back it up. He has nothing but rumor. Trump is a blasted, damned fool!

Who needs evidence at a time such as this. All you need is supposition and bull shit to do what you want, including get us into WW111.

rlk posted on 2018-04-14 18:18:01   Reply   Private Reply


#33: paraclete    To: rlk (#32)

all you need is supposition and bull shit to do what you want, including get us into WW111.

Yes Trump is a tool of the military/industrial complex. He has made a restrained response which will be taken as weakness by Assad and Putin. Madam May is making much of the opportunity to ramp up the rhetoric against the Russians linking gas in Syria to nerve agents in the UK

paraclete posted on 2018-04-14 18:52:41   Reply   Private Reply


#34: A Pole    To: paraclete (#33)

He has made a restrained response which will be taken as weakness by Assad and Putin.

Assad and Putin are very, very smart (they would not be where they are, if they didn't). They understand the situation of Trump well. probably they sympathize with him.

A Pole posted on 2018-04-14 19:14:16   Reply   Private Reply


#35: paraclete    To: A Pole (#34)

Assad and Putin are very, very smart

Putin might be smart or just cunning, Assad didn't get the job by being smart, like Kim he took over from his daddy and has succeeded in pissing off his people, not smart, devastating his country, not smart

paraclete posted on 2018-04-14 21:40:50   Reply   Private Reply


#36: buckeroo    To: paraclete (#35)

Assad didn't get the job by being smart, like Kim he took over from his daddy and has succeeded in pissing off his people, not smart, devastating his country, not smart

Depends on how you believe the MSM. He is exceptionally intelligent and educated and holds ample political power to offset the BULLSHIT you believe in.

buckeroo posted on 2018-04-14 21:45:38   Reply   Private Reply


#37: Operation 40    To: buckeroo (#14)

Why is the USA involved in Syria? We are not dealing with ISIS now.

This woman knew the answer in 1999. A few of her predictions haven't come true yet but most of the time, she was a prophet. Karen Talbot (RIP)

Cinnabon for Syria! It's Freedom!

Operation 40 posted on 2018-04-15 02:35:26   Reply   Private Reply


#38: Operation 40    To: paraclete (#35)

Assad didn't get the job by being smart

How many interviews of him have you seen?

Operation 40 posted on 2018-04-15 02:36:52   Reply   Private Reply


#39: A Pole    To: paraclete, Vicomte13, Tooconservative, sneakypete, Pinguinite (#35)

Assad didn't get the job by being smart, like Kim he took over from his daddy and has succeeded in pissing off his people, not smart, devastating his country, not smart

I wonder how long you would last in his place, I think couple days at most.

You have a set of templates from the cartoons and more cheesy Hollywood movies and are conditioned like a Pavlovian dog.

You cannot point to a country on the map or spell its name, but you know the character of the rogue leader better than his closest family. Strange thing, each of those designated rogues is IDENTICAL to the others. Saddam, Milosevic, Allende, Noriega, Milosevic, Putin, Kim, ...

No matter that earlier they could have had a different role assigned, memory is flexible.

A Pole posted on 2018-04-15 04:31:22   Reply   Private Reply


#40: sneakypete    To: paraclete (#35)

Putin might be smart or just cunning,

Pooty Poot grew up in the KGB. Being smart wasn't a requirement,but if you weren't cunning you ended up dead or in a labor camp. AND.....,he rose to the rank of Colonel there before branching out into Russian politics and becoming the President of Russia,so there can be no doubt about how cunning he is. Or how ruthless.

sneakypete posted on 2018-04-15 08:40:38   Reply   Private Reply


#41: paraclete    To: buckeroo (#36)

He is exceptionally intelligent and educated and holds ample political power to offset the BULLSHIT you believe in.

and what bullshit do I believe? certainly not the bullshit Trump is peddling, or the bullshit Putin is peddling, or the bullshit you are peddling

paraclete posted on 2018-04-15 08:41:15   Reply   Private Reply


#42: sneakypete    To: buckeroo (#36)

He is exceptionally intelligent and educated and holds ample political power to offset the BULLSHIT you believe in.

Maybe,maybe not. Don't forget,he has the whole police state system behind him trying to protect him because protecting him is protecting themselves. He could have the IQ of a toad and still hold his hereditary position as long as he hands out power and a percentage of the take.

sneakypete posted on 2018-04-15 08:44:00   Reply   Private Reply


#43: sneakypete    To: Operation 40, paraclete (#38)

Assad didn't get the job by being smart

How many interviews of him have you seen?

I THINK the point he was making is that Assad's IQ is irrelevant as he is the hereditary ruler of a police state. He had an established system in place and running when he took over.

sneakypete posted on 2018-04-15 08:46:41   Reply   Private Reply


#44: Tooconservative    To: A Pole, paraclete, Vicomte13, sneakypete, Pinguinite (#39)

Assad didn't get the job by being smart, like Kim he took over from his daddy and has succeeded in pissing off his people, not smart, devastating his country, not smart

Assad was not expected to take over the regime, his brother who got killed was groomed for the role, much as Joe Kennedy Junior was the son that old Joe wanted to run for prez. When he got killed in the remote-controlled bomber over England, JFK was his father's pick to run for prez.

Assad did become a qualified ophthalmologist after medical training in Britain. I never read any complaints about his professional qualifications so he must have been fairly bright and had basic competence. And he does seem to be pretty intelligent, maybe a little on the autism scale. Something about his appearance and behavior makes me think that when I do see him on TV, despite how carefully they control any video of him that we can see in the West.

However, Assad is the figurehead of his country's military/political elite. Exactly as Kim Jong-Il is. In either case, even if we drove the "dictator" from power, the (primarily) military regime would simply select another figurehead as ruler. There is no other way to rule a country that is so culturally and religiously divided as Syria is.

In some respects, Putin plays the same role in Russia. He just didn't inherit the role from Daddy.

If you want an American example of this, look at how Rand Paul mostly inherited his father's political base. And Rand is, like Assad, an ophthalmologist.

Tooconservative posted on 2018-04-15 13:49:13   Reply   Private Reply


#45: buckeroo    To: Tooconservative (#44)

Assad was not expected to take over the regime, his brother who got killed was groomed for the role, much as Joe Kennedy Junior was the son that old Joe wanted to run for prez. When he got killed in the remote-controlled bomber over England, JFK was his father's pick to run for prez.

Assad did become a qualified ophthalmologist after medical training in Britain. I never read any complaints about his professional qualifications so he must have been fairly bright and had basic competence. And he does seem to be pretty intelligent, maybe a little on the autism scale. Something about his appearance and behavior makes me think that when I do see him on TV, despite how carefully they control any video of him that we can see in the West.

However, Assad is the figurehead of his country's military/political elite. Exactly as Kim Jong-Il is. In either case, even if we drove the "dictator" from power, the (primarily) military regime would simply select another figurehead as ruler. There is no other way to rule a country that is so culturally and religiously divided as Syria is.

In some respects, Putin plays the same role in Russia. He just didn't inherit the role from Daddy.

If you want an American example of this, look at how Rand Paul mostly inherited his father's political base. And Rand is, like Assad, an ophthalmologist.

Why is America involved with Syria?

buckeroo posted on 2018-04-15 13:55:11   Reply   Private Reply


#46: Tooconservative    To: buckeroo (#45)

It's...complicated.

Trump wants out. But he also doesn't want to look weak.

He isn't the first prez with exactly this problem.

Tooconservative posted on 2018-04-15 14:00:58   Reply   Private Reply


#47: buckeroo    To: Tooconservative (#46)

It's...complicated.

How does American involvement in Syrian internal affairs ensure a defensive posture for Americans? Did they bomb the USA or were the USA invited by Syria to be there?

buckeroo posted on 2018-04-15 14:08:19   Reply   Private Reply


#48: Tooconservative    To: buckeroo (#47)

How does American involvement in Syrian internal affairs ensure a defensive posture for Americans? Did they bomb the USA or were the USA invited by Syria to be there?

We abolished the Department of War after WW II and replaced it with the Department of Defense.

Ipso facto, anything we do with our military is defensive. You're old enough to know this, Buck.

Tooconservative posted on 2018-04-15 14:46:10   Reply   Private Reply


#49: buckeroo    To: Tooconservative (#48)

Typical government DOUBLE-SPEAK. I have no reports that Syria launched a missile towards the USA or much less attempted to invade the USA.

buckeroo posted on 2018-04-15 14:56:02   Reply   Private Reply


#50: paraclete    To: buckeroo (#47)

How does American involvement in Syrian internal affairs ensure a defensive posture for Americans? Did they bomb the USA or were the USA invited by Syria to be there?

questions that no one wants to answer, but you can bet Israel and jewish influence is in there somewhere. Before the current shamoozle Syria was an active enemy of Israel and now Iran is closer to Israeli borders than they were before

paraclete posted on 2018-04-15 17:58:41   Reply   Private Reply


#51: Vicomte13    To: buckeroo (#47)

They slaughter their own people and support terrorism against our allies. Therefore, their government needs to go. Also, if the government is overthrown and replaced with something more pro-American, the Russian base there can be closed - and that is the only Russian naval anchorage in the Mediterranean. Poor Russians.

Vicomte13 posted on 2018-04-15 21:50:49   Reply   Private Reply


#52: Pinguinite    To: Vicomte13 (#51)

Also, if the government is overthrown and replaced with something more pro-American, the Russian base there can be closed - and that is the only Russian naval anchorage in the Mediterranean. Poor Russians.

The poor Russians have enough nukes to virtually destroy the entire USA and probably Europe too, so they are not that "poor".

Best not to attempt to back a nuke power into a corner.

And they have the Crimea back, so they still have Met access.

Pinguinite posted on 2018-04-15 21:58:56   Reply   Private Reply


#53: A Pole    To: Vicomte13 (#51)

if the government is overthrown and replaced with something more pro-American

Like in Libya?

A Pole posted on 2018-04-16 03:38:50   Reply   Private Reply


#54: Vicomte13    To: Pinguinite (#52)

The poor Russians have enough nukes to virtually destroy the entire USA and probably Europe too, so they are not that "poor".

Best not to attempt to back a nuke power into a corner.

And they have the Crimea back, so they still have Met access.

As I said: their military option is to blow up the world, including themselves. Sure, they can commit suicide (and wake up in Hell after doing it), but they don't have any option.

As far as Med access goes, take another look at the map. Sevastopol is on the Black Sea. To get to the Med they have to steam through the Dardanelles inside of NATO ally Turkey.

And once they get to the other side, in the NATO-ally Greece's private lake called the Aegean, with Syria gone they have nowhere to base, nowhere to refuel, nowhere to repair. Their underway replenishment capability is very weak. So sure, they can send a fleet past Istanbul, in peacetime, and float around in the Med until they run out of fuel and food. They can't stay there very long, and in a war scenario, they can't get their fleet out of the Black Sea, or back into it if it's in the Med.

The loss of Syria would be a massive blow to their strategic position. They need to negotiate.

I'm sure that leaving them a Guantanamo Bay type of arrangement regarding their Syrian base can be worked out that doesn't require Assad to sit there.

But maybe not.

Poor Russia has nuclear weapons - and that's all they've got. Nuclear weapons give them the option of being a suicide bomber - blowing up the whole world, themselves included - in a tantrum. They would do that if armies were closing in on Moscow. So would the French is armies were closing in on Paris. But over Syria? Nah. The Russians will not commit suicide over Syria. They'll take their lumps and be angry and move on.

Vicomte13 posted on 2018-04-16 07:48:27   Reply   Private Reply


#55: Vicomte13    To: A Pole (#53)

Like in Libya?

Sure.

Vicomte13 posted on 2018-04-16 07:50:08   Reply   Private Reply


#56: A K A Stone    To: Vicomte13 (#54)

inside of NATO ally Turkey.

Lol.

A K A Stone posted on 2018-04-16 07:52:34   Reply   Private Reply