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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Fri Apr 13, 2018, 09:00 AM Apr 2018

Biggest task force since Iraq on course for Syria

Source: The Times of London

US-led strikes against Assad expected in days ● Britain will join action as cabinet backs May

Deborah Haynes, Francis Elliott, Michael Evans, Tom Parfitt, Charles Bremner
April 13 2018, 9:00am, The Times

The largest US air and naval strike force since the 2003 Iraq war was heading towards Syria last night as Theresa May won the backing of the cabinet to join in military action.

US-led strikes after the suspected chemical weapon attack in Douma, which left as many as 40 people dead, are expected within the next three days.

The prime minister continued yesterday to face down demands for a Commons vote on whether Britain should join the US in any punitive action against President Assad.

Senior ministers decided it “was vital that the use of chemical weapons did not go unchallenged”, according to the official read-out from an emergency meeting of the cabinet yesterday. It added that they “agreed on the need to take action to alleviate humanitarian distress and to deter the further use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime”.

Read more: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/biggest-task-force-since-iraq-on-course-for-syria-bpjn699bt

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Biggest task force since Iraq on course for Syria (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2018 OP

Great so we are going to let Syrian refugees in the US? bronxiteforever Apr 2018 #1

Here we go again folks workinclasszero Apr 2018 #2

Not good. Not good. Not good. Bayard Apr 2018 #3

bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)

1. Great so we are going to let Syrian refugees in the US?

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Apr 13, 2018, 09:24 AM

Apr 2018

Oh wait no we won’t. Instead we are going to blow up stuff ( probably more civilians) and surprise surprise Assad will still be in charge. On the positive side, maybe we destroy all his chemical weapons.

Yet he can torture and kill people without chemical weapons. I wonder if any reporters will ask questions about what our goal is in Syria. Especially since we are supposed to draw down soon according to Cheeto. Assad will just wait it out.

Oh and our humanitarian gestures

The U.S. Has Accepted Only 11 Syrian Refugees This Year
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/04/12/602022877/the-u-s-has-welcomed-only-11-syrian-refugees-this-year

Despite this some officials, including the Trump administration's defense secretary, have spoken out about Syrian refugees.

"I've seen refugees from Asia to Europe, Kosovo to Africa. I've never seen refugees as traumatized as coming out of Syria. It's got to end," Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday.

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)

2. Here we go again folks

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Apr 13, 2018, 10:02 AM

Apr 2018

The results of republican control of the government:

1. The 1% and big business raid the public treasury and make war on the poor, the sick and the old.

2. War, anyplace will do, reasons to be made up as we go.

3. Dead Americans caught up in the economic draft coming home in body bags. (No rich republican kids of course)

4. Billions and billions wasted on never ending conflicts while the republicans scream about the deficit and how we must totally destroy whats left of the safety net to pay for Republican Forever War.

This shit NEVER CHANGES!!!!

Bayard

(22,075 posts)

3. Not good. Not good. Not good.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Apr 13, 2018, 10:27 AM

Apr 2018

Did I say, Not Good?

Does anyone doubt that tRump's last little bit of sanity is teetering on the brink of WWIII? I keep going to the scene in, "The Dead Zone", where Martin Sheen as president, says--"The missiles are flying. Hallelujah!"

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