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President Trump announced Friday night that the U.S. and its allies had launched attacks on Syria in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack last week by President Bashar Assad's regime.
In televised remarks from the White House, Trump said the attacks were underway, and that Great Britain and France were also taking part.
The president did not provide details, but U.S. warships in the Mediterranean Sea, armed with cruise missiles, were in position to strike. British and French forces were also in place.
[...] The president said the U.S. prepared to sustain effort until the Syrian regime stops using chemical weapons.
[...] In the days leading up to the U.S. attack, Russia had warned that it would defend its troops in Syria. This has raised fears of a possible direct clash of U.S. and Russian forces.
Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/13/601794830/u-s-launches-attacks-on-syria
Also at Bloomberg and The Guardian
(Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14 2018, @11:02AM (5 children)
Saddam has been winning the war. Why would he use chem weapons when he's been doing so well at killing people without those weapons.
Another chem weapon false flag also happened last year when Trump was already being friendlier with Assad and Assad was having lots of success (with Russia's help) fighting ISIS and the US supported rebels.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 14 2018, @02:54PM (1 child)
modded up because I'm not convinced. Hell, people, my own government would be willing to stage a false flag chemical attack, if it advanced their agenda. Who remembers how we convinced the American public that we needed to go into Vietnam? https://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2008-02/truth-about-tonkin [usni.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14 2018, @07:11PM
I am sure there are even older examples in American History as well, not including the conflicts with Native Americans, Mexicans, and other groups with a preexisting stake in regions we found it lucrative to control.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14 2018, @06:56PM
But anyway on the subject of Saddam yes he had WMD before, but that's because the USA and the allies "had the receipts" - they helped him get them. But he got rid of them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @02:02AM
it's well known to anyone that bothered to follow the details that the chemical weapons found in iraq were sold to iraq by the US. the chemical weapons the US soldiers breathed were US ordinance sold to iraq and blown up likely by the US, likely to cover their asses for selling the shit in the first place. a few thousand soldiers die? big deal, right? we'll just blame it on saddam who was bullied into the damn war when kuwait started stealing their oil underground, btw.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @02:05AM
some poor dumb slave modded you troll! lmao! thanks modder that was hilarious.