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Flashback: Sec. Kerry Said 100% of Syrian Chemical Weapons Were Removed

Before you start WW3, believing in the agitprop out of the media who is blaming Assad on a pointless chemical weapons attack on his own people, in low impact mop up operations, take a look at this montage of Obama officials claiming they had removed ‘100%’ of the chemical weapons in Syria.

Who benefits from this, a man who has been fighting for control of his country since 2012, or neocons, like McCain, who’ve been begging for war with Syria and Russia in order to build pipelines and install a puppet government?

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164 comments

  1. frog

    Obama administration officials were apparently mistaken about this. Assad must have had hiding places that they didn’t know about. Democrats are not perfect. They just appear to be perfect, when you compare them to Republicans.

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  2. vandamme

    Easy to hide that stuff. Come on, Fly.

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  3. frog

    And this latest of Assad’s many brutal attacks on his own people was not pointless. Now that the U.S. has an incompetent president who has been pandering to Syria’s best buddy Russia, Assad wanted to test to see just how much he can get away with.

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    • chuck bennett

      Fucking dip shits.

      Have you learned nothing?

      Winners don’t go around and spray swastikas on churches and synagogues. They don’t spray paint Nigger on people’s cars. Nor do they attack people. All of the above happened after the election and it was the losers who did it, not the winners of the election.

      Assad is wining, he doesn’t need to spray paint swastikas, the word nigger or attack people using sarin gas. It’s bullshit.

      Don’t believe in the yellow cake.

      Regards

      Chuck Bennett

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      • frog

        There are plenty of sore winners in the world. Trump is one.

        Just like there are plenty of billionaires who lie, cheat, and still and might even kill to get even more money.

        Power and money can be addictive for some people. They feel like they can never get enough.

        Did Hitler stop trying to invade countries because he was a “winner” who had taken over some countries already? Did he stop murdering Jews because he had murdered millions already. These things can go on and one.

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        • it is showtime

          Trump’s fortune has been generally reduced. Trump’s brand and billionaire ranking both dropped and dived.
          As those of us argued how illogical that this was all for personal gain. Didn’t make sense then doesnt now

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          • anjingbauwau

            He will be in the History books forever……Trump inc isn’t even a footnote…..

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          • frog

            He’s making tons of money off of the presidency, pressuring foreign ambassadors and such to stay at his hotels. Maybe his official ranking dropped but he is definitely cashing in on the presidency. And almost his whole cabinet is super wealthy .01% people he’s making deals with for profit.

            To say that the world’s most insecure billionaire doesn’t want any more money, and won’t try to make money off of the presidency, is laughable. You folks here have got to be the most naive people on earth.

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        • chuck bennett

          Idiot frog.

          Trump won.

          Assad is not Hitler.

          Our wars have and are support for ISIS and Al Qaeda is a Neocons wet dream.

          Since when are you a Neocon?

          Regards

          Chuck Bennett

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          • frog

            I am not, nor have I ever been, a Neocon. But Assad did what he did. That is just reality.

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        • it is showtime

          Your fallback rhetorical devices “naive” and “laughable” (among others) negate most of your point. His brand and bank acct only took a hit and will continue to do so, not the other way around. He said many times he didn’t have to do this, which he didn’t (have to). Lots of our corrupt congresspeople end up rich from their terms, (and Bill and Hill never stopped enriching) so it’s a moot point at the very least

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    • it is showtime

      Russia and Syria are regional allies, so what?

      A brazen chemical attack is a test?
      You can’t have it both ways, you have to assert he actually wanted all the ramifications of an out in the open gas cloud, not just a testing of a new administration.

      Trump never pandered. He generally said Russia needed to be treated fairly -and- sternly as any other world power. And that he shared time on CBS’ 60 minutes.

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    • chuck bennett

      That’s gibberish Frog. You saying this only proves you have no brain. You are regurgitating something you read.

      Again, fix your self or I will.

      Regards

      Chuck Bennett

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      • frog

        No, Chuck, you are the one re-gurgitating something you read. You never have answered my question about what news sources you consume. Alex Jones? Or what?

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        • chuck bennett

          No dipshit,

          The only think I’m reading are the tea leaves. I don’t listen to anyone but myself.

          I know plenty, you are clearly a wanna be liberal who is a progressive neocon ready to fight a war over nothing.

          When pictures of dead kids are being shown, it’s to play on the emotions of the sheeple.

          Did I read this somewhere ? Don’t be stupid you moron. (Howard sterns father )

          Regards

          Chuck Bennett

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          • chuck bennett

            Again,

            You listen to news reports. They are putting these ideas in your monkey head.

            Try thinking for yourself.

            Regards

            Chuck Bennett

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          • frog

            You don’t listen to anyone but yourself? Impossible on this subject unless you live in Syria and so saw first hand what happened and who did it. Do you? I didn’t think so.

            As for stupid, I am sure that my IQ is twice yours.

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          • juice

            Frog .. u should just STFU sometimes and listen to the far wiser voices in the wind or elsewhere

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    • metalleg

      Why? What’s the point of the test? Let’s say you’re right, what does he gain? What does he risk? Also, those who don’t see this for what it is are idiots or paid to act one.

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      • frog

        If Trump is beholden to Russia, Assad risks nothing. He wipes out everyone anywhere near anyone who reminds him of the rebels who are fighting to get their country back from him, the butcher. He terrorizes everyone and gets their complete submission. Many have nowhere to go as refugees now, so they will stay and submit to him, and he will kill or hurt anyone he wants and people will put up with it. And the international community will do nothing, if Trump is Putin’s servant.

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        • chuck bennett

          you are clearly wrong. now what are you going to say? He is not beholden to Russia and you are a regular low IQed jackass that has no business being around kids or the elderly.

          Say something smart. I dare you

          regards

          Chuck Bennett

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  4. Dr. Fly

    Why would Assad launch a flaccid chem attack on his own people when he already won the war?

    It’s all lies, but you people can believe what you want. If you want to cause the deaths of millions, start world war 3, all in the name of ‘helping’ the Syrian people, let that sit on your conscious.

    Long ago, liberals used to be anti-war. Now, when they lose elections, they want total war.

    What a group of zealots you people are.

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    • frog

      Ridiculous. There are many different views among liberals. The average liberal is a lot less warlike than the average Republican, as shown by a comparison of W and Obama, in the degree to which they engaged in wars and the number of people killed. Many liberals, including me and Bernie, think Obama was too warlike for their tastes. But he pales compared to W, and probably compared to what Trump will end up doing.

      Democrats are not the root of all evil. In fact, Republicans are much less moral, on average. If you stopped watching Alex Jones and reading Breitbart, you would realize that.

      I’m not saying I want a war with Syria, and I have not said that anywhere.

      But if you would stop watching Fox and Breitbart and other fake news, you wouldn’t read conspiracy theories about False Flags everywhere all the time. Assad did attack his own people. All the real news has reported it. There is no reason to believe otherwise, even if somebody put a doctored or play-acted video on the web as propaganda about a supposed False Flag. Your conspiracy theory promoters believed that even Sandy Hook was a False Flag. They have a False Flag obsession.

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  5. MSGT HARTMAN

    “Trump Top Adviser Steve Bannon Attends NSC Meeting One Day After Being ‘Removed’

    ZeroHedge falls for the fake news, again.

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    • frog

      Well maybe Bannon does still have a fair amount of power. But Kushner is clearly the president now.

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  6. Dr. Fly

    Bannon can attend NSC meetings, but was removed from principle committee. ZH knows more than 99.99999% of you.

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  7. dopefeller

    NBC News: Syrian aircraft dropped those chemical weapons on civilians; U.S. military saw the aircraft on radar & watched them drop the bombs

    US military is behind this so-called false flag?

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    • frog

      The conspiracy theorists disbelieve the U.S. military and disbelieve everyone else too– except other conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones, Breitbart etc.

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      • chuck bennett

        Frog,

        Do you disbelieve or believe S Hussein had weapons of mass destruction?

        This is an easy one.

        Regards

        Chuck Bennett

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        • frog

          He did not, of course, as most liberals knew already at the time your precious Republican W sent us into a war with Iraq.

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          • chuck bennett

            Ok, he didn’t and someone lied.

            Why are you so fast to believe it’s not happening again.

            (My precious? Are you a weirdo or just so political you have turned into a lunatic ?)

            No love for Bush here thank you

            Regards

            Chuck Bennett

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          • frog

            No love for Bush here? Just continuing to vote for Republicans, as if they can be trusted.

            If Trump gets us into one or more unnecessary wars here, it will be because people like you trusted another Republican.

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    • chuck bennett

      NBC- we removed 100 percent of the chemical weapons. Question, did we lie then, or are we lying now?

      NBC- sodom Hussein has weapons of mass distraction. Question, lie or truth?

      NBC- Clinton had a 90 percent chance of winning.

      Regards

      Chuck Bennett

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      • dopefeller

        Hate the messenger. Not the message.

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        • chuck bennett

          You clearly hate yourself

          We have no evidence. Why must you be such a stupid cave monkey ?

          Regards

          Chuck Bennett

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          • ironturd

            Regards, kindly, sincerely, waste more time, writing salutations, and your name, and I thought we were supposed to trust everything Trump said and believed, cordially, best, love, kindly, salutations

            Iron Turd

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          • chuck bennett

            It’s my brand,

            I gotta do it. Believe me, it’s annoying. But not as annoying as reading the thought of you and Others monkey brains

            Regards

            Chuck Bennett

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          • ironturd

            Hey, respect for the brand, it’s actually important for this little community of commenters all trying to make sense of it all in a clusterfuck manner to have their schtick. At the end of the day we all want the best for the most possible, just completely disagree on the methods and policies.

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    • Dr. Fly

      Yes. So we ‘saw’ them drop chem weapons via radar? There is no such thing.

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      • dopefeller

        The president is the supreme commander of the armed forces.
        So, Donnie “small hands” Trump ordered the military to drop those chem weapons?

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        • chuck bennett

          No you fucking idiot D small hands didn’t do it

          The people with he most to gain are pushing this story.

          Trump will lose 60 percent of his supporters if he does anything

          Regards

          Chuck Bennett

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          • metalleg

            NBC: yeah, we have the questions to Hillary ahead of time. So what?

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          • dopefeller

            Name a few people along with proof.
            Scumbag.

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          • frog

            Why Trump has any supporters any more to lose, is a great mystery.

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    • it is showtime

      chem weapons couldnt have been planted?
      no?
      planted? couldnt happen?
      so if a syrian jet had some intel it goes off
      if you believe the media’s military radar story in the first place

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  8. Dr. Fly

    And yes, the whole point of a false flag means we frame the narrative. By we, I mean US interests.

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    • mistermoe

      This is retarded. I feel dumber for reading this. You think Assad who has seen videos of Qaddafi being killed with a metal pole being shoved up his ass is going to leave anybody alive who may want him out of power? Yes he fucking gassed those people.

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      • sarcrilege

        This does not make any sense. Assad was afraid of a few kids shoving a metal pole up his ass? How many people actually “allegedly” died in this false flag incident? Assad could have killed more little kids with conventional weapons if he wanted to. This false flag sarin attack was so pathetic it’s not even worth mentioning. It’s not like it was genocide in order of 100’s thousand. The police kill more innocent people in one day than Assad allegedly killed with sarin. All you go to hell with this bullshit! Let’s call it what it is – it’s a false flag.

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  9. anjingbauwau

    the view from the left…..

    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04/06/pers-a06.html

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    • frog

      This is not “the Left” but one particular socialist web site. But I am glad to see anyone collecting various opinions on this matter, so that we can inform ourselves.

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  10. dopefeller

    Fly – serious question
    Do you think Sandy Hook was a hoax?

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    • chuck bennett

      Is that all you got? Sandy Hook? Hahaha

      What the fuck are you talking about?

      Did Hussein have WMAs? We know the answer , now you know it. Be good

      Regards

      Chuck Bennett.

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    • metalleg

      What are you trying to prove with that question? What the fuck does that have to do with the shit going on in Syria?

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      • dopefeller

        Alex Jones seems to have proof about Sandy Hook being a false flag op. Now answer the fucking question or stfu.

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        • it is showtime

          So every Alex Jones listener ascribes to every assertion he makes? We don’t have some discernment that some things are partially true, or at least deserve some skeptical attention?

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  11. s.k.

    This is retarded. If there were truly a false flag in effect why wouldn’t it have been done before Obama left office? Especially when Trump was preaching pro-Russia rhetoric during the campaign?

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    • ferd

      Perhaps they wanted to get Trump in line. He was not sufficiently pro war with Syria/anti-Russia for the warmongering neocons.

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      • frog

        False Flags are possible. But not as many of them as Alex Jones and other conspiracy theorists see. They see them everywhere all the time. They are hallucinating.

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        • Dr. Fly

          Frog is obsessed with Alex Jones

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          • frog

            I never wouldn’t know much about Jones if he weren’t cited on ibankcoin so much. And I wish I never had known much about him. He and Breitbart and Fox and Drudge and Zerohedge are destroying the country with their lies and conspiracy theories.

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          • wolfdaddy

            Please list your truth telling sites. And don’t you mention Huffington post.

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        • s.k.

          The burden of proof is inherently low, and the ratings are high!

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    • it is showtime

      really? hill was still supposed to win
      they didnt need to play the card
      come on really?

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      • s.k.

        What does it matter if she was projected to win, when you already had an administration that was looking for reasons to pull the trigger?

        We have an incompetent administration in disarray. A president who publicly admonishes our allies and speak positively about Russia. Putin is a brilliant man and this was not a tactical chemical strike. This was a message loud and clear to the world. The US will not be able to form a coalition against Syria and will not have the resolve to do anything on its own. It is a brilliant move by Putin. And quite frankly I hope Trump does not launch any kind of strike in retaliation. The window for that opportunity closed a long time ago.

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  12. anjingbauwau

    so as you read through the various viewpoints on the attack here are the various theories emerging

    Assad did it to test the resolve of the American government

    The rebels did it because they need help to get regime change

    The competing pipelines are at the bottom of this ( follow the money theory)

    A rogue madman did this

    The Zionist are to blame

    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    The people behind this and the motive are unclear and the party responsible must think they have done the propaganda job well.

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    • frog

      Thanks anjing, for your summary of different viewpoints. Though people may not agree, at least we know what the various viewpoints are. And we can seek evidence to prove or disprove things.

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      • anjingbauwau

        I like to see what the media isn’t discussing in this case its the point I made before about Trump being a populist/Isolationist/nationalist/protectionist.

        So when I think about this and the Syria situation I ask myself who has he most to gain? The Globalists/Davos Man is the answer I come up with.

        Trump is being pushed into the foreign policy arena at a time when he is struggling with fulfilling his electoral promises to his base. There is division between the left and right already and within his own party. This situation may have the effect of dividing his own supporters. Were Trump to lose his base then literally he is a man cast alone. Populism is the enemy of the elites and Trump needs to be contained at all costs.

        I have no proof- only a sense that what is in the press is what is put there for consumption on purpose. What isn’t being discussed needs to be considered.

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        • moosh

          And it has literally been happening atleast every day since being elected by the American people.

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          • anjingbauwau

            moosh I hope you are long oil and gold….could be a nice day tomorrow for those sectors

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  13. ferd

    Frog makes a good argument for reinstating the draft. Used to be that young libs were against the man leading them into useless wars. (I’m assuming he is quite young based on his trolling out talking points fed to him by others.) Now, with no skin in the game, he and his ilk blithely argue for acts of war in support of proven liars in our government and media. I guess six wars ongoing isn’t quite enough. Lets get it on with Russia.

    All major media in this country went along with Bush, the CIA director and their handlers in support of the Iraq invasion even though it was clearly known that there was no WMD. How can anyfuckingbody cite a report on NBC as proof that Assad did something that he absolutely could not benefit from??? Fuck the fuck.

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    • frog

      I am not arguing for a war at all. But Assad did what he did. Is that why you folks believe it was a false flag? Because you have decided that if Assad really did it, that we have to go to war against him?

      There is no reason at all to believe it is a false flag, just because conspiracy theorists say so. But perhaps you believe that because you believe it is necessary in order for you to be against going to war?

      And I don’t know what percentage of Republicans, Democrats, liberals, conservatives, are for or against war with Syria. It could very well be that conservatives are more in favor of war with Syria than liberals are. That certainly has been true of most of the wars we’ve been in, in recent decades. Why would that change now?

      NBC is 100X more truthful than Alex Jones, Breitbart, and the other fake news sites that are most often cited here at ibankcoin. They don’t see false flags everywhere they look. That is to their credit.

      That’s laughable for a conspiracy theory web site person to tell a reader of fairly accurate mainstream news like me, that I am trolling out talking points fed to me by others.

      It’s amazing how confident people can be in their belief in conspiracy theories and propaganda that have zero evidence for them.

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  14. Dr. Fly

    I have no reason to believe Sandy Hook was a fake. Where do you come up with this stuff?

    This isn’t 1917 folks. Gas attacks aren’t particularly deadly compared to modern munitions. Assad could’ve accomplished more with a simple missile attack you pavement apes.

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    • frog

      How many hundred rationales do you have for why Assad wouldn’t, shouldn’t, couldn’t have done this? You just have to believe he didn’t do this, apparently, no matter what evidence there is that he did.

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      • Dr. Fly

        That’s not how burden of proof works. You need to prove he did it, not me.

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        • s.k.

          Bullshit. He needs to prove he didn’t do it because it happened in his country and he has already done it once. Do you live in a cave?

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          • sarcrilege

            Assad needs to prove nothing to anybody other than his own people. His people know he did not do it. His people are not asking. This is a false flag to get US into hot war. That’s all. Simple.

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  15. gappingandyapping
    gappingandyapping

    They did remove them, they were removed by ISIS and ISIS just used them on the Syrians. If anyone believes Assad was the one who ordered this attack (if it is indeed real) then you simply don’t understand power and war. There is nothing that would behoove Assad to do this, he gains nothing and stands to lose greatly and for what, to kill 17 or so people? Please, give me a break.

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    • frog

      How many hundred rationales do you have for why Assad wouldn’t, shouldn’t, couldn’t have done this? You just have to believe he didn’t do this, apparently, no matter what evidence there is that he did.

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  16. heckler

    I love a good conspiracy theory, I do, but as someone who actually works for the gov, I can tell you, most people in the public sector ARE STILL FUCKING RETARDED!

    So chances of this being a false flag remain low. C’mon with all the leaks and shit. C’mon.

    And this doesn’t mean we have to go to war. Let’s put pressure on Congress like we did for health care. Let’s make them actually vote for this shit.

    Fucking aye – meanwhile the Senate is busy dismantling it’s own institution and staying the course of being major pussies. Doesn’t the War Powers Act expire?

    Would much rather have a wall we can see from space then another war. Especially a war with Russia.

    Get on your horse Fly. You’ve been shilling for trump for ages. Blog about making a real difference for Christ’s sake.

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    • Dr. Fly

      I haven’t shilled at all you pussy. I wanted certain things and believed Trump could deliver.

      What the fuck is your problem?

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      • bennyhill

        That’s what all of his voters did and it’s exactly the problem. There was no evidence he could deliver shit, it was clearly all lies and Demagoguery.

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        • frog

          Fact checkers, whom Trump supporters would not believe because Trump fake news media told them not to believe them, told us all that Trump lied 69% of the time. But Trump’s supporters just kept believing Right Wing fake news.

          There doesn’t need to be any shame in being conned. We have all been conned at some point in time, bought a bill of shoddy goods or snake oil due to falling for deceptive advertising. That’s what happened to Trump supporters. Alex Jones, Breitbart, Drudge, and Zerohedge are just political snake oil salesmen.

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        • BenCBrainard

          I had absolutely no interest in what Hillary would deliver. Trump was the only one that could beat her and beat her he did. Even without Russia’s help.

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    • ferd

      Leaks don’t matter. Truth does not control the popular narrative.

      The best example remains our invasion of Iraq. They had no WMD. The UN weapons inspectors verified this over and over again. Our chief weapons inspector verified this. The truth of Saddam’s bending over backwards to rid the place of WMD and opening up his palaces in order to keep us from invading was leaking like crazy. But still, those in control of the media parroted the company line, people believed the lies, and we invaded.

      BTW, did you know that the former Marine who was our weapons inspector in Iraq and who was billed as a hero by the the press at that time, ended up in jail after he was set up in a sting for talking nasty to an adult female cop who supposedly billed herself as under-aged. Zee truth must be suppressed!

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  17. kdog

    Kill them all and let GOD sort them out.

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    • chuck bennett

      Heckler and the other idiots.

      Nobody is supporting Trump here right now. Do you understand?

      Seems like all of you are all supporting Trump and his possible actions in Syria. That’s the part I don’t understand.

      Unless you are just all totally lunatics.

      Please explain so I have a better feeling before bed time.

      Regards

      Chuck Bennett

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  18. frog

    BTW, everyone seems to be assuming that if Assad did this, then we have to take him out of power. That is not necessarily so. Assad is a butcher. So was Saddam, although he did not have WMD. But taking him out was not a quick easy solution to his brutality.

    The M.E. is not a very democratic tolerant type place. If they have a butcher for a president, there is a reason for that. If you take him out, then democracy and tolerance do not just naturally sprout up to replace the butcher. More likely, there is chaos, and terrorists try to take over, and/or maybe eventually another butcher rises up to take over.

    Removing the butcher may seem like a nice quick easy solution to the problem. But it’s not. Because then what happens after you remove him?

    Assad may not be Hitler– at least not yet, at least not in the sense of invading other countries. What he does in his own country is horrendous. But if we took him out, there is no reason to believe that whoever stepped up next to fill the power vacuum would be better.

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    • chuck bennett

      We have no right being involved in civil wars.

      However we have been aiding Al Qaeda thanks the McCain. so we are just trying to finish the job? What happens why Assad is gone? Think Libya, Iraq and all the kids raped and sold into sex slavery.

      You people haven’t learned a dam thing.

      When the MSM is all saying the same thing, it’s wrong. They are brain washing use to except this.

      Regards

      Chuck Bennett

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      • chuck bennett

        Lastly,

        Obama was right not to invade. McCain and the Neocons are wrong.

        Regards

        Chuck Bennett

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        • heckler

          Dude I’m totally with those regards. No war for a while.

          Fuck that.

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    • anjingbauwau

      Muammar Gaddafi comes to mind

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    • BenCBrainard

      Assad is a butcher. ISIS has armies of butchers.

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      • frog

        Both Assad and ISIS have armies of butchers. If we think we can take out a butcher, and then the people will have freedom, love and light, we are dreaming. Most likely a different butcher will take the place of the first one.

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  19. UncleBuccs

    Blackhole Sun playing in the background..

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  20. juice

    for the many retards here …. from a cartoonist http://blog.dilbert.com/post/159264981001/the-syrian-gas-attack-persuasion

    According to the mainstream media – that has been wrong about almost everything for a solid 18 months in a row – the Syrian government allegedly bombed its own people with a nerve agent.

    The reason the Assad government would bomb its own people with a nerve agent right now is obvious. Syrian President Assad – who has been fighting for his life for several years, and is only lately feeling safer – suddenly decided to commit suicide-by-Trump. Because the best way to make that happen is to commit a war crime against your own people in exactly the way that would force President Trump to respond or else suffer humiliation at the hands of the mainstream media.

    And how about those pictures coming in about the tragedy. Lots of visual imagery. Dead babies. It is almost as if someone designed this “tragedy” to be camera-ready for President Trump’s consumption. It pushed every one of his buttons. Hard. And right when things in Syria were heading in a positive direction.

    Interesting timing.
    Super-powerful visual persuasion designed for Trump in particular.
    Suspiciously well-documented event for a place with no real press.
    No motive for Assad to use gas to kill a few dozen people at the cost of his entire regime. It wouldn’t be a popular move with Putin either.
    The type of attack no U.S. president can ignore and come away intact.
    A setup that looks suspiciously similar to the false WMD stories that sparked the Iraq war.
    I’m going to call bullshit on the gas attack. It’s too “on-the-nose,” as Hollywood script-writers sometimes say, meaning a little too perfect to be natural. This has the look of a manufactured event.

    My guess is that President Trump knows this smells fishy, but he has to talk tough anyway. However, keep in mind that he has made a brand out of not discussing military options. He likes to keep people guessing. He reminded us of that again yesterday, in case we forgot.

    So how does a Master Persuader respond to a fake war crime?

    He does it with a fake response, if he’s smart.

    Watch now as the world tries to guess where Trump is moving military assets, and what he might do to respond. The longer he drags things out, the less power the story will have on the public. We’ll be wondering for weeks when those bombs will start hitting Damascus, and Trump will continue to remind us that he doesn’t talk about military options.

    Then he waits for something bad to happen to Assad’s family, or his generals, in the normal course of chaos over there. When that happens on its own, the media will wonder if it was Trump sending a strong message to Assad in a measured way. Confirmation bias will do the rest.

    There is also a non-zero chance that Putin just asked Assad to frame one of his less-effective Syrian generals for going rogue with chemical weapons, and executing him just to calm things down.

    I don’t think we’ll ever know what’s going on over there. But I think we can rule out the idea that Assad decided to commit suicide-by-Trump.

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    • ferd

      Indeed. We’re supposed to believe that every time Assad appears to be winning control, he attacks himself.

      Folks, there are people out there who are not like you and me. They will kill babies all day long to forward their agenda. And it is not Assad’s agenda that is helped by this event.

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      • frog

        Assad is fighting the Syrian rebels. He hasn’t won. He’s still fighting– and is trying to fight a lot nastier than they are fighting.

        Scott Adams is a fool to be always thinking up ways that Trump is supposedly a “Master Persuader.” Trump is not that. He is just a total incompetent. That’s all.

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    • frog

      Scott Adams should have stayed just a cartoonist. He flatters himself tot think he knows about anything else but cartoons. I’ve read his blog in the past for a while and stopped reading it, because nothing he says seems likely or believeable.

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  21. UncleBuccs

    “Kuwait Baby Incubator” – apply this shit to today’s action, and you’ll understand the false flag thing a little bit better….

    https://youtu.be/pR4cgeJJPqg

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  22. heaterman

    Could we get back to sane discussion of the matter?
    (Frog, if you have nothing adult to contribute please just remain silent)

    Given that as little as a week ago it was apparent the US was not going to get engaged in the Syrian conflict in a meaningful manner; which is exactly, it would seem what both Syria and Russia desire….

    Let’s focus on this question.
    What reason(s) would Assad have to gas his people, knowing this would fan the flames of forcing the US to intervene?

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    • frog

      In order to test out whether Putin has Trump by the balls and can keep Trump from doing anything Putin doesn’t want Trump to do. Putin wants Assad in power so that Putin can get his pipeline.

      You are asking a question that has been asked over and over and responded to already. So you are the one who has nothing adult to contribute. So you can be the one to remain silent.

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  23. bushwacker2

    Too late…BOOM!!

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  24. chuck bennett

    Too late is right.

    Regards

    Chuck Bennett

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  25. uglyflint

    Strikes launched !

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  26. bushwacker2

    Demons unleashed.

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  27. mongoosereflexes
    mongoosereflexes

    It’s happening

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  28. anjingbauwau

    crude just took off

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  29. anjingbauwau

    gold caught a bid

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  30. bushwacker2

    Great. We destroy Assad’s stashes of chemical weapons, and now only ISIS has chemical bombs.

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  31. anjingbauwau

    reports of 50-60 tomahawk miles have been launched. So far Iran and Russia have not said anything…..

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  32. s.k.

    I truly loathe every single one of you mouth breathing limbic thinking retards that voted for this man. Thank you so much for getting us into another messy war. Fucking idiots.

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    • uglyflint

      He’s a neocon god now. Ralph Madcow must be orgasmic on air.

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  33. bushwacker2

    Trump got punk’ by ISIS. How better to destroy both Assad and America by getting the US and Russia in a deadly conflict?

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  34. bushwacker2

    Punk’d

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  35. cancel19

    Somebody is influencing the leadership in Syria! Who can that be?! MUH Americans!!!

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    • frog

      Well, Russia was propping up Assad. And now the U.S. is fighting Assad. So now the U.S. and Russia are on opposite sides, trying to influence the leadership in Syria.

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      • chuck bennett

        shut up dummy. You couldnt give the correct answer if you copied from the school book itself.

        regards

        Chuck Bennett

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  36. anjingbauwau

    Trumps balls are in the vice tonight. He is meeting with Xi and this is taking place….. does he look over at Xi and say this is what we are going to do to N. Korea if you don’t slow him down …

    Gorsuch vote tomorrow… what a dogs breakfast this is for the Republic….. the winners are the globalists… everyone else loses

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  37. wolfdaddy

    Wow the bombing apparently has started. At least trump isn’t a big pussy like Obama. Putin will do nothing. Fuck them

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  38. ferd

    Certainly we would have hit some civilians by accident, but hey, they’re Syrians, so it’s all good. Won’t see any pics of dead civilians from this missile strike on MSM. Hopefully we didn’t kill any Russians.

    Mr. Trump, you so macho. Marco, please tell him that his penis is just fine.

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    • anjingbauwau

      Florida Senator Marco Rubio has also welcomed the strike. In a statement, he said:

      I salute the bravery and skill of the men and women of our armed forces who conducted this mission. Tonight’s strike against the Assad regime’s Shayrat airbase will hopefully diminish his capacity to commit atrocities against innocent civilians.

      By acting decisively against the very facility from which Assad launched his murderous chemical weapons attack, President Trump has made it clear to Assad and those who empower him that the days of committing war crimes with impunity are over.

      What must follow is a real and comprehensive strategy to ensure that Assad is no longer a threat to his people and to US security, and that Russia no longer has free rein to support his regime.

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  39. frog

    I guess since this already happened now, we have to hope for the best outcome, which I guess would be that these strikes now will be the only ones we do against Syria, and that Assad will stop gassing and butchering his people. I expect that all here are hoping that this is a one time thing, not a long term involvement in a civil war. I guess that’s the only thing I agree with Chuck and Fly on about this. I don’t want the U.S. to be in the middle of some other place’s civil war that could go on for centuries.

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    • chuck bennett

      Frog,

      I’m slightly less angry at you now.

      When (they) say he is bombing his own people its pretty disingenuous. Who are his people and not his people. Are his enemies really his people? They did this in Libya.

      Lastly, If we kill people who are not our people, does that make it ok?

      drop that (his people) rhetoric you picked up from the TV.

      ok?

      regards

      Chuck Bennett

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  40. anjingbauwau

    Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, both armed services committee hawks who have been sharply critical of Trump even as they have long sought an attack on Assad, praised Trump on Thursday evening.

    In a joint statement, they said:

    We salute the skill and professionalism of the US armed forces who carried out tonight’s strikes in Syria. Acting on the orders of their commander-in-chief, they have sent an important message: the United States will no longer stand idly by as Assad, aided and abetted by Putin’s Russia, slaughters innocent Syrians with chemical weapons and barrel bombs.

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  41. anjingbauwau

    Donald Trump is speaking to reporters at Mar-a-Lago.

    He says Assad used deadly nerve gas to kill many Syrians.

    Tonight he ordered a “targeted military strike” on the airfield from which that chemical weapons attack was launched.

    These strikes were, he said, in the “vital national security interest” of the US.

    He said he was calling on all “civilised nations” to stop the slaughter and bloodshed in Syria.

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  42. dopefeller

    “AGAIN, TO OUR VERY FOOLISH LEADER, DO NOT ATTACK SYRIA – IF YOU DO MANY VERY BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN & FROM THAT FIGHT THE U.S. GETS NOTHING!”

    Donald Trump, 9/5/2013

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    • chuck bennett

      talcum feller ,

      Was he dumb when he said it or dumb now? You cant have it both ways

      regards
      Chuck bennett

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  43. dopefeller

    “Still no explanation of steps 2, 3, 4, etc. and consequences of going to war in Syria. I am still a NO.”

    Jason Chaffetz, 9/10/2013

    “God bless the USA!” – Jason Chaffetz, 4/6/2017

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  44. bushwacker2

    This was totally reactionary….like a tweet gone wild, except really, really bad.

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  45. wolfdaddy

    This should cause a nice buying opportunity. Probably tomorrow

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  46. dopefeller

    “What will we get for bombing Syria besides more debt and a possible long term conflict? Obama needs Congressional approval.”

    Donald Trump, 8/29/2013

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  47. anjingbauwau

    My fellow Americans,

    On Tuesday, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians using a deadly nerve agent.

    Assad choked out the lives of innocent men, women and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many. Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack.

    No child of god should ever suffer such horror.

    Tonight I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched.

    It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons.

    There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the chemical weapons convention, and ignored the urging of the UN security council.

    Years of previous attempts at changing Assad’s behaviour have all failed and failed very dramatically.

    As a result the refufee crisis continues to deepen and the region continues to destabilise, threatening the United States and its allies.

    Tonight I call on all civilised nations to join us in seeking to end the slaughter and bloodshed in Syria, and also to end terrorism of all kinds and all types.

    We ask for god’s wisdom as we face the challenge of our very troubled world.

    We pray for the lives of the wounded and for the souls of those who have passed.

    And we hope that as long as America stands for justice that peace and harmony will in the end prevail.

    Goodnight and god bless America and the entire world. Thank you.

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  48. anjingbauwau

    I wonder if the US warned the Russians that strikes were ordered and to stay clear of the target……

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    • anjingbauwau

      Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said:

      Russian forces were notified in advance of the strike using the established deconfliction line. US military planners took precautions to minimise risk to Russian or Syrian personnel located at the airfield.

      We are assessing the results of the strike. Initial indications are that this strike has severely damaged or destroyed Syrian aircraft and support infrastructure and equipment at Shayrat airfield, reducing the Syrian government’s ability to deliver chemical weapons.

      The use of chemical weapons against innocent people will not be tolerated.

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    • dopefeller

      The US warned the Russians ahead of Syria missile strikes: Official

      via CNBC

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  49. bennyhill

    The tracked SYRIAN bombers all the way from take-off to the attack site.

    YES ASSAD DID IT!

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