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US Strikes Syrian Base With Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles (nbcnews.com)
mi writes: Two U.S. warships in the Mediterranean Sea fired 59 Tomahawk missiles intended for a single target -- Shayrat Airfield in Homs province in western Syria, the Defense Department said. That's the airfield from which the United States believes the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fired chemical weapons on Tuesday. There was no immediate word on casualties. U.S. officials told NBC News that people were not targeted and that aircraft and infrastructure at the site, including the runway, were hit. Slashdot reader Humbubba shares a similar report from Washington Post, adding that Thursday's strike was the "first direct American assault on the government of President Bashar al-Assad since that country's civil war began six years ago." The report also notes that the strike "dramatically expands U.S. military involvement in Syria and exposes the United States to heightened risk of direct confrontation with Russia and Iran, both backing Assad in his attempt to crush his opposition."
Yes. when the US does it in its own interests, it's 'warmongering.' When the US does it at the behest of a NATO ally, it's still 'warmongering.' When anyone else does it, it's because of US 'warmongering.' I'm sensing an agenda here.
Appropriate and measured response to being accused of the nerve gassing of innocent civilians without any evidence two days ago. There, fixed that for you. You do realise that there is absolutely no reason to believe that Assad had anything to do with this, in fact there is plenty of reason to believe that he did not but then to accept the long list of other possibilities would not get the US into yet another pointless war and we have got to have someone to kill for no reason. Cannot let them actually be worse than us can we?
I love stacking my barbecues in the shed at the end of summer - you can't beat a bit of grill on grill action.
Your comment would have been good, and I would have fully accepted your criticism, if you had actually pointed to evidence. But you didn't, it's an evidenceless post. You might as well have saved typing and said, "I disagree." Which of course, is perfectly allowed.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
If only 0bama had left enough troops in Iraq to finish the job properly. I think sometimes he was the leader of the JV Team.
By hitting Assad Donald is helping IS, Al Qaeda, etc.
By hitting Assad Donald shows he follows through on a false flag.
By hitting Assad Donald keeps playing the world police role even though the empire is fading.
It is all so obvious. `The US` (deep state, etc) want a continuation of any war. Justice is not important.
Now reading from RT https://www.rt.com/news/383807.... The US managed to kill 2 civilians, three soldiers and injure seven others (so obviously the Syrians were fully aware of the attack and it looks like one of the missiles went a little astray), with a claim of 59 tomahawk cruise missiles fired, with an approximate cost of $1.59 million each https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., excluding firing costs, for a total cost of $93.81 million, excluding firing costs, operation of vessels and crew, which could really blow that figure out, likely double. So who was punishing whom for what is looking like a false flag gas attack (did the US government just roundly punish US taxpayers), although people really did die but it is looking like they were kidnap victims from pro-Syrian government villages who were murdered. So all in all, just what the fuck is going on, this is looking all sorts of crazy. A profitable day for Raytheon McDonald Douglas but it makes the US look like a pack of idiots. So panic of the Obama spying on Trump disclosures, the Clintons are feeling prosecutorial heat, Trump has been set up for impeachment with an attack upon another country without Congressional or US approval or Raytheon McDonald Douglas, were bitching because profits for this quarter are a little low and demanded expenditure. Make no mistake, the attack was clearly rushed because the false flag story was falling apart and now the evidence will expose Uncle Toms Obama's Syrian rape brigades as the actual culprits and Trump will be blamed for acting with congressional approval, what a stupid debacle. It seems very much like the US spent more money than the damage they caused, especially when the US government values foreign people with brown skins at $2,500 per https://www.theguardian.com/wo....
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
I refereed to the only one that provided any statics about the outcome of the attacks, so oh yeah I'm a Russian spy. I suppose you are OK with the US killing more than ten million people all over the globe without any world war. How about reporting on Mosul, how about Lybia, how about Ukraine, how about where ever the else the US military has been murdering people with one excuse after another to pave the way for the American century where they parasite the rest of the world.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen