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US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered

An anonymous reader writes "The Associated Press reports that 'U.S. forces are now ready to act on any order by President Barack Obama to strike Syria, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday. The U.S. Navy has four destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean Sea positioned within range of targets inside Syria, as well as U.S. warplanes in the region, Hagel said in an interview with BBC television during his visit to the southeast Asian nation of Brunei. Hagel also predicted that U.S. intelligence agencies would soon conclude that last week's deadly attack on civilians in a Damascus suburb was a chemical attack by Bashar Assad's government.'" The New York Times has an informative map of the sites of the chemical attacks.

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  1. DEFEND SYRIA! by For+a+Free+Internet · · Score: -1, Troll

    DEFEAT U.S. IMPERIALISM! Mobilize the power of the working class!

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  2. hipocrites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    When Israel dumps white phosphorous on Palestinians that isn't a chemical attack that justifies a "strike?" What about when they just spray Palestinian homes with foul smelling liquid in an attempt to make the homes unlivable so they can be torn down and replaced with new housing projects exclusively for Jews?

    1. Re:hipocrites by advocate_one · · Score: 1, Troll

      MOD parent UP...

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  3. Re:Here we go... by i+kan+reed · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apparently the longest the U.S. is able to hold its bloodlust for invasion is a decade.

  4. YAFF by lazylion · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yet Another False Flag operation. Has everyone seen the newly leaked emails alleging that the United States is actually responsible for the chemical weapons attack precisely to justify this invasion? See this and this and this and this and this and this and this.