Assad Gasses Syrians - Spicer Blames Obama

[bobabode]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/04/politi...d-trump-obama/

I can't even...

[MrPots]

10 bucks says it was american companies that supplied the chemical weapons they used.

[Chicks]

Sen McCain sets the record straight.

[barbara]

Spicer really blamed Obama?!!


This administration is just crazy.

[MrPots]

Deflection, Trump himself has sole responsibility for this massacre.

"The attack came five days after the Trump administration signaled that the Syrian dictator would not be held accountable for the slaughter of his people.

The Trump administration said Bashar al-Assad could remain in power -- a reversal of Obama-era policy that said Assad had to go."

Trump is a snake, a filthy nasty evil snake.

[icenine]

Trump opposed Obama interfering in 2013 after the nerve gas attack in numerous tweets.

Of course when Obama asked for Congressional approval for intervention the GOP was a paragon of integrity by refusing to vote for or against a red line declaration or approval of retaliation.

Of course that makes it all the easier to blame Obama.

I guess since Assad and Russia are allies they won't face anything from Trump.

[Rajoo]

President Trump’s Real-World Syria Lesson

So, last week, someone named “Rex Tillerson” (who, I am told, is the U.S. secretary of state) declared that the “longer-term status of President Assad will be decided by the Syrian people” — as if the Syrian people will be having an Iowa-like primary on that subject soon. U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley made the same point even more cravenly, telling reporters that the United States’ “priority is no longer to sit there and focus on getting Assad out.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/o...sson.html?_r=0

[bobabode]

"The Pentagon is in the process of presenting options to the White House on potential military responses, which could include strikes on Syrian military targets and actions designed to ground the Syrian air force.
Senior White House officials met on the topic Wednesday evening in a session that lasted into early Thursday, and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser, have communicated repeatedly about the issue since Tuesday’s attack, the officials said.
[Deadly nerve agent sarin used in Syria attack, Turkish Health Ministry says]
The Joint Chiefs of Staff were expected to meet early Thursday evening to discuss potential strike options, one military official said. One of the most likely is Tomahawk missiles launched from Navy ships in the Mediterranean Sea." WP

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.bda8818c62e2

How soon does this spiral out of control?

[barbara]

Scary times with a mad man making the decision.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by barbara

Scary times with a mad man making the decision.

A decision involving three crazy mofo's - Trump, Putin and Assad. Trump's back channel to Putin is probably inquiring which symbolic Syrian target Putin is OK with Trump hitting with a cruise missile.