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dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts) Wed Sep 17, 2014, 06:19 PM Sep 2014

Need dates for a Syria timeline, DU.

Pres. Obama wanted to go after Assad, tried to get the country/Congress behind the idea, but it did not work.( except for McCain, of course)
When was this, exactly?

ISIS popped up in Iraq ...when?

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Need dates for a Syria timeline, DU. (Original Post) dixiegrrrrl Sep 2014 OP

Last year leftstreet Sep 2014 #1

I thought so..... dixiegrrrrl Sep 2014 #2

oh yeah...n/t leftstreet Sep 2014 #3

leftstreet

(36,110 posts)

1. Last year

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Original post)

Wed Sep 17, 2014, 06:22 PM

Sep 2014

Aug 29, 2013
Barack Obama's plans for air strikes against Syria were thrown into disarray on Thursday night after the British parliament unexpectedly rejected a motion designed to pave the way to authorising the UK's participation in military action.

The White House was forced to consider the unpalatable option of taking unilateral action against the regime of Bashar al-Assad after the British prime minister, David Cameron, said UK would not now take part in any military action in response to a chemical attack in the suburbs of Damascus last week.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/30/obama-strike-syria-britain-vote

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

2. I thought so.....

Reply to leftstreet (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 17, 2014, 06:41 PM

Sep 2014

needed confirmation, tho...my sense of time is a bit weird, I find.

You see where i am going with this, right?

leftstreet

(36,110 posts)

3. oh yeah...n/t

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 17, 2014, 06:43 PM

Sep 2014

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