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Syria chemical attack: McCain says Trump's talk of pulling U.S. troops ‘emboldened’ Assad

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/poli...ssad/497640002/

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Sunday said President Trump’s talk about pulling U.S. troops out of Syria "emboldened" Bashar Assad to launch a suspected chemical weapons attack.

At least 42 people died and 500 were injured late Saturday in Douma, a suburb of Damascus, many of them while sheltering in basements during an artillery and bombing attack, rescue and medical workers told the Associated Press.

“President Trump last week signaled to the world that the United States would prematurely withdraw from Syria,” McCain said in a statement.

“Bashar Assad and his Russian and Iranian backers have heard him, and emboldened by American inaction, Assad has reportedly launched another chemical attack against innocent men, women and children, this time in Douma.”

The incident came less than a week after Trump, speaking about Syria, declared: "I want to bring our troops back home."

McCain praised Trump for condemning the attack Sunday on Twitter, but said, “The question now is whether he will do anything about it.”

The president, in tweets, ripped "that animal Assad" and lay blame for the Syrian president's power on Russia, Iran and even President Barack Obama. Obama warned in 2012 that Assad’s use of chemical weapons would cross a “red line,” but he didn’t back up the threat with military action.

McCain said, “History will render a bitter judgment on America for that failure. But no one should believe we are out of options.”

McCain hailed Trump’s “decisive action” last April, when he ordered a missile strike against Syria after more than 80 people died in a chemical weapons attack.

“He should do so again, and demonstrate that Assad will pay a price for his war crimes,” McCain said.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Sunday that the United States and eight other countries called for an emergency meeting Monday of the U.N. Security Council to discuss the situation.

"The Security Council has to come together and demand immediate access for first responders, support an independent investigation into what happened and hold accountable those responsible for this atrocious act,” she said.

Trump's first public commentary on Syria came right around the same time he was screaming at the teenage actress from the "Twilight" movies abvout her boyfriend two or three times a day. His stance was that Obama was being too weak, and should start bombing and send ground troops.

Once Obama began bombing and sending in forces, Trump shifted his position, claiming that it was a waste of money and potentially lives, with no foreseeable gain for the country.

After Obama's "red line" comments following further sectarian violence, Trump shifted opinion again, claiming that Obama should have continued bombing and increased troop support.

The next shift in blathering incoherent thoughts came on the campaign trail, where he claimed he never would've gotten involved in the first place.

After being sworn in, he's shifted opinions on three more occasions, ranging from "we should just let Russia handle it and stay away" to "we're gonna bomb the hell out of them".

It will be interesting to see what he says tomorrow when "Fox & Friends" lets him know what his opinion is.

Yes we need more war... That's the GOP answer for everything. What a mess Trump is making of our world standing. Disaster.

Trump actually campaigned on non-intervention.

He's a moron who believes and repeats the last thing he heard.

I've long said that if someone pitched single-payer health care under the name "Trumpcare", he'd be crowing by morning about how America needs to get behind it.

Opposition isn't the antidote for a dope like Trump - you need to make him a useful idiot like McConnell and Ryan did.

Whatever you want accomplished, just argue that Obama was for the opposite, and pay to plant the seeds of that into the TV show Trump screams at in the morning.

We should definitely punish Assad for these war crimes, but I'm just sick of fight wars over there. That part of the world is always going to be a crapfest of horror. Part of me says bail now and let Russia expend resources in the endless war. But then you lose influence.

It would be a very good time to put this on the UN and our allies, but Trump has seriously damaged those relationships. Looks like we either go it alone or bail. smh

Withdraw troops and immediately offer asylum to any refugees whose homeland we bombed and starved into Hell.

(***SPOILER***) The funny part comes when one of the usual suspect dumb posters tries to explain why this Ronald Reagan plan won't work).

Asylum for the refugees whose lives we destroyed? Fair, yes... But no thank you. Just get out, and let the chips fall. We don't need to import problems to add to all the problems we have. I'd prefer to have less people here adding to the divides. Help them with material things, sure. Bring them here, no.

We created all the problems.

We're directly responsible for sectarian violence in their country.

We have an obligation to the innocent lives we ruined after our trillion dollar plus "wheeeeeeeeee!" down the waterslide that was the Iraq War.

Mr. Twiiter says he'd never tell what his plans are..He relayed plans to Russia on a missile attack..Then he tweets out his plan to cut and run in Syria to the entire world. Then Putin's other puppet gasses is own people. Putin, Assad, and Trump all have blood on their hands now. What a hot mess they got us all into. Thanks GOP!

Trump owns this conflict now! No whatabout Obama here. Once Mr. Twitter had his little missile attack after warning Putin, Trump now owns this crap civil war he got us into with Putin. Thanks GOP!!

Trump. "I'll never let anyone know what our plans are" Then tells everyone in the world his plans. What a freak show@! Thanks GOP!!!

Assad is a maniac.. No question. I don't like sending our troops to war, but this guy needs contained. Can we do it with Bombing or do we need boots on the ground?

The problem is Putin not Assad. but whatever. The world war drum is being struck by Putin not Assad.

President Trump's stated goals for Syria was wiping out the ISIS Caliphate and killing ISIS fighters.

The Caliphate is no more.
ISIS is no longer a Military threat as they have been reduced to pockets of terrorists that we are hunting down and destroying.

He may be right, it is soon time to pull our troops out of Syria.
Their Civil war was decided when Obama gave Syria to Putin and Iran.
“We’re not going to immediately withdraw but neither is the president willing to back a long-term commitment,” a senior administration official told Reuters.

We will not be fighting WW3 with Russia to fix Syria's problems as it is not worth American lives. We will not be fighting WW3 to take Crimea back from Russia either.

Those were loses.

We have sent Offensive weapons to Ukraine in order to hold Putin from taking any more of that Country.

Mr. Twit-er and the GOP owns this conflict now since the lame missle attack after the last chemical attack. Assad, Putin and Trump have blood on their hands. Gassing women and children is the norm with this group. Trump hasn't done squat to stop it. Deplorable being deplorable as usual.

Making Murica great! Pfft.

This can't be!! The Community Organizer and Chief is on record saying that Syria destroyed all of it Chemical munitions during his reign.

Seriously though...you actually think Trump saying he wants troops out of Syria got Assad to fire weapons intentional which will keep US troops in Syria?? This sounds just like an inside MIC job stirring the pot the keep tensions high and more US $$$ spent on the WAR MACHINE...

These guys are not even trying to hide their false flags anymore.

Yeah the rebels gassed their own women and children to keep the USA engaged in Syria. Talk about ludicrous. If anyone other than Assad or Putin gassed them, it would have been Isis backed terrorists.

Trump says to make fast decision after suspected Syrian chemical attack

https://www.yahoo.com/news/syria-says-u-suspected-attacking-air-pentagon-denies-041835045.html

WASHINGTON/AMMAN (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday condemned a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town in Syria that killed dozens of people and said he would make a decision on a response, probably by the end of the day.

Speaking at a Cabinet meeting, Trump said he was talking to military leaders and would decide who was responsible for the attack -- whether it was Russia, or Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, or Iran, or all of them together.

International bodies led by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) were trying to establish exactly what happened on Saturday in Douma, a besieged town in eastern Ghouta near Damascus.

The Syrian government and its ally Russia have denied involvement in the attack.

U.S. government sources said on Monday the administration had not yet conclusively determined whether the attack was carried out by Assad's forces. Its initial assessment suggested that a nerve agent was used but further evidence was needed to determine what specifically it was, the sources said.

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said he would not rule out military action such as air strikes if blame was proven.

"I don't rule out anything right now," he told reporters in Washington.

Mattis accused Russia of falling short on its obligations to ensure that Syria abandoned its chemical weapons capabilities.

"The first thing we have to look at is why are chemical weapons still being used at all when Russia was the framework guarantor of removing all the chemical weapons." he said.

Trump said on Sunday after initial reports of an attack that there would be a "big price to pay".

A Syria medical relief group said at least 60 people had been killed and more than 1,000 injured in several sites in Douma.

The stakes were further raised on Monday when unidentified war planes struck a Syrian air base near Homs, killing at least 14 people, including Iranian personnel. Syria and Russia accused Israel of carrying out the attack.

Israel, which has struck Syrian army locations many times in the course of its neighbour's seven-year-old civil war, has neither confirmed nor denied mounting the raid.

But Israeli officials said the Tiyas, or T-4, air base was being used by troops from Iran and that Israel would not accept such a presence in Syria by its arch foe.

The two incidents in Douma and Tiyas demonstrated the complex and volatile nature of the Syria war, which started in March 2011 as an anti-Assad uprising and now involves a number of countries and a myriad of insurgent groups.

Assad now has the upper hand in the conflict, largely thanks to Russian intervention on his side, but any international action could delay his efforts to bring it to close.

RANGE OF OPTIONS

The United Nations Security Council will meet on Monday following rival requests by Russia and the United States to discuss the situation. Senior officials in the Trump administration were also to meet in the White House.

Britain said it was working with its allies to agree a joint response to the reported chemical attack on Douma.

"If there is clear verified evidence of the use of chemical weapons and a proposal for action where the UK would be useful, then we will look at the range of options," Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said.

France said it would work closely with the United States on a response to the suspected chemical attack. Both countries agreed responsibility for the strike must be established.

President Emmanuel Macron, who spoke to Trump by telephone on Sunday, had issued repeated warnings previously that France would strike if proof of lethal chemical attacks were established. But Paris stopped short of apportioning blame on Assad's forces for Saturday's attack.

Trump had referred in a Tweet to "Animal Assad" and criticised Russia and Iran for backing the Syrian leader, directly naming Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said such allegations were false and a provocation. Lavrov also said the strike on the T-4 base was a dangerous development.

Syrian government forces had launched an air and ground assault on Douma, the last rebel-held town in the eastern Ghouta district, on Friday.

The Union of Medical Care Organizations (UOSSM) said at least 60 people had been killed by the alleged chemical attack.

"The numbers keep rising as relief workers struggle to gain access to the subterranean areas where gas has entered and hundreds of families had sought refuge," it said.

One video shared by activists showed bodies of about a dozen children, women and men, some with foam at the mouth. Reuters could not independently verify the reports.

The OPCW, based in the Hague, said people were possibly gassed to death by a poisonous cocktail of sarin and chlorine.

Dr. Muhammad, a doctor in Ghouta quoted by UOSSM, said patients were coughing blood, a symptom not seen in previous chemical attacks.

U.N. war crimes investigators had previously documented 33 chemical attacks in Syria, attributing 27 to the Assad government, which has repeatedly denied using the weapons.

The United States fired missiles on a Syrian air base a year ago in response to the killing of dozens of civilians in a sarin gas attack in an opposition-held town in northwest Syria, blamed on Assad.

RED LINES

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitor, said at least 14 people were killed in Monday's air strike on the T-4 base, including foreign fighters - a reference to Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia members, mostly from Iraq, Lebanon and Iran fighting alongside the Syrian army.

Iran's Fars news agency said three Iranians were killed.

The Russian military said two Israeli F-15 war planes carried out the strike. Interfax news agency cited the Russian Defence Ministry as saying Syrian air defence systems had shot down five of eight missiles fired.

Syrian state news agency SANA, citing a military source, carried a similar report.

The Israeli government had no immediate comment.

Israeli Housing Minister Yoav Galant, while not confirming that Israel had carried out the attack, said his country had clear interests in Syria.

"We laid down red lines there, which said that we would not allow Syrian land to be a springboard for game-changing weaponry to Lebanon, we would not allow the building of an Iranian army in Syria and we would not allow the opening of another front on the Golan Heights," he told Israel Radio.

"In this context we are taking action with all means, over time."

In Washington, Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, urged Trump and his administration to destroy Assad's air capabilities, enforce safe zones inside Syria, and target Assad directly.

"This president has the chance to do exactly the opposite of (former U.S. President Barack) Obama - send a strong signal that there's a new sheriff in town and America's back," Graham told Fox News in an interview.

did Trump rip obama and government because he said we telegraph to the enemy what we're gonna do?

what say ye, trump supporters?

The GOP answer to this is, Isis is defeated. Time to leave.

If so many of you were not trapped in your own bubble of hate
you could think clearly and answer that question for yourselves.

Yes we are the ones living in a bubble. smh

Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery.

Which is exactly why you are beyond help.

Jc

Well it sucks, but now we have to wonder if trump will retaliate simply to distract from the fact that his people are getting raided and mueller is inching closer and closer.

Tome cruise help us if we have a house of cards situation on our hands.

You can bank on there being an attack to distract from the raids and change the news cycle. Add Bolton into that mix and who knows how far it will go...

Well, IF that happens, I guess we'll know where he learned it at least.

You'll have to give me more to go on there Arch. Not sure what you mean.

You give me a headache. I think I'll go take an aspirin. That's your hint.

McCain and his globlist war pig buddies will have more Americans in body bags, because fear is their vehical of Order out of Chaos.

What makes any American citizens believe that further escalations will achieve what we could not achieve for the past 5 years now?
Be real careful for what you wish for...you might just get it.

As Trump adds John Bolton to his team......

Yes, there is that, but honestly the pool of candidates are all on team NWO. No outsider would ever be considered. This just goes to prove that, the people are only lead to believe that they have a voice.

I know their end game, but that game has been running for more then a century now.

It will not end until the words..."we have no king but Caesar" are uttered by the goyim.

And how is it that you have come to know this?

It's in His book.

Because it's my business to know and it should be yours as well.

The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy...prophecy is history told in advance. President Lincoln knew in his day what would happen if we let the Jesuits control high places in government. The elect will know.

Everybody should congratulate 40 on becoming the new White House Communication Director!

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Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and “smart!” You shouldn’t be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/984022625440747520

Trump warns Russia: Missiles 'will be coming' to Syria

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-warns-russia-missiles-will-coming-syria-121929090.html

what happened to not telegraphing plans to the enemy?

the news just posted every time he stated we weren't gonna tell the enemy our plans.

he then tells the enemy our plans.

Must have thought calling them beforehand was too serious and is just trying to slide in the dms on this one.

Putin obviously isn't a Trump enemy.

My favorite is when 40 tries to make it sound like the answer is on a higher plane of thinking.

"The moron whose policy decisions are shaped by "Fox & Friends" and are subject to change depending on who the next guest is has a plan, you guys. Just open your mind up to it."

Russia Will Bomb U.S. Missile Launch Sites If Trump Attacks Syria, Ambassador Warns

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-bomb-u-missile-launch-102819143.html

Anybody wanna take a guess as to what the launch sites are?