@Big Al Who are you talking about buying it? is there data on what the people of the United States think of this? Or are you responding to the unanimity coming down from above, from all the "leaders?"

Of course they're unanimous in support of this; the only people that might have opposed it were Trump and Republicans like Rand Paul and Justin Amash. The Bush Republicans and Clinton Democrats (which is all the Democrats except Tulsi Gabbard, basically) all supported it from the beginning. As did the Pentagon, the CIA, and the mass media.

And I just checked, and Rand Paul has this to say:

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/327736-rand-paul-trump-...

Admittedly, his main problem with the strike is that Trump needed Congress' approval first, a point of view apparently shared by the likes of Tim Kaine, rather than the fact that it's wrong, but he does at least mention the fact that neither the United States nor its people were attacked.

Among the Dems, I've not seen anyone other than Gabbard (yet) who opposes this move on its merits. And even Gabbard says that Assad should be executed if it turns out he's actually to blame--she just wants solid evidence that he is. She's talking in the language of crime, trial, prosecution, as if Assad could/should be brought to the Hague to stand trial, and then get executed if he's found guilty. Silly Tulsi, so quaint and old-fashioned. We don't need no stinkin' trials.

Not only is it blatantly illegal for the U.S. to do this no matter what happened, it is so obviously based on lies it's almost maddening to think people are buying and/or supporting this. This all was obviously a pre-planned move by the Trump admin, along with the CIA, for an excuse to go after Syria and pressure Russia.

Here's Haley,
"Russia cannot escape responsibility for this," Haley said at the United Nations. "They chose to close their eyes to the barbarity. They defied the conscience of the world."

I might have to shut myself down from everything news related at this point. I honestly can't stand this, it's like watching a mass murder in your backyard while tied to a chair.

We'll see what Putin and Lavrov have to say.

@chuckvw

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Jewish Scriptures, Proverbs 29:18, to be precise, Captain.

I'm old enough to remember well the Gulf of Tonkin... A lie that triggered millions of Vietnamese, Cambodian,and Laotian deaths, and tens of thousands of American deaths.

It's no consolation but exactly the same thing would be happening had Clinton won.

A lie travels around the world before the truth gets its pants on.

@MichaelSF

...many of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on a personal basis. As a willing tool of the Pentagon, and with Bill's access to WH info, she's always going to know what's going on.'

She's a pretty happy camper right now, with that smug smile frozen on her lying face.

She wanted an expanded war in Syria and she got it. Yeah, she would have preferred to lead it, herself, but now she's feeling that she's been vindicated.

Clinton lost the election. She occupies NO public office/administration position. But it sounds like she's still getting intelligence/military briefings so that she can state without a doubt just what is happening in Syria?

So either someone is leaking "official secrets" to her, she's secretly a part of the Trump administration, or she's just saying (lying) whatever she wants to say for whatever reason she wants to say it.

Is there an option I missed?

@CB I think he's had his horns polled.

Didn't take long to change his 'mind'. The guy is a loose canon. He's insane.

Trump warns that by attacking Assad, US will ‘end up fighting Russia’
Published time: 12 Nov, 2016

US President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed that he will most likely abandon the Obama administration policy on Syria to seek a possible rapprochement with Russia on the issue of Assad.

“I’ve had an opposite view of many people regarding Syria,” the 70-year-old Republican told the Wall Street Journal in his first interview since the election.
...
Trump, on the other hand, said on Friday that the US should be focused on fighting Islamic State, instead of pursuing regime change in Syria.

“My attitude was you’re fighting Syria, Syria is fighting ISIS, and you have to get rid of ISIS. Russia is now totally aligned with Syria, and now you have Iran, which is becoming powerful, because of us, is aligned with Syria... Now we’re backing rebels against Syria, and we have no idea who these people are.”

It has been widely documented and reported that American weapons supplied to the moderate rebels are often obtained by extremists in Syria. Those weapons, in turn, are being used by the jihadists to strike civilian positions and deploy them against Syrian forces.

The president-elect warned that if the US attacks Assad, “we end up fighting Russia, fighting Syria.”
...

@earthling1 @earthling1

Just ahead of #scandal, which I guess is a popular show that's on tv right now too.

And this site is holding the only conversation about this bombing.
Near complete blackout.

@earthling1 @earthling1

I just searched around the entire net
And this site is holding the only conversation about this bombing.
Near complete blackout.

BBC is covering the bombing -- it's where I first heard of it.

I wasn't logged in here at the time.

Meteor Blades has published this Diary over at TOP and yes, there's a conversation going on there; but the quality level is about what one would expect for DK (the Hillbots and other bad guys get rooted on while the peace activists get shat on).

The conversation at Jackpine Radicals is running a skosh closer to our speed here on c99p.

So it isn't just us, and there's no blackout. Thank Cat!

And this site is holding the only conversation about this bombing.
Near complete blackout.

@earthling1

are on it, too - agreeing with us, and adding information.

And this site is holding the only conversation about this bombing.
Near complete blackout.

@snoopydawg ordering the carnage.

Clinton said that if she were in power, she would have told the Russians they were “either with us or against us on this no-fly zone.”

“The Russians were afraid of us because we were going to stand up for the rights, the human rights, the dignity and the future of the Syrian people,” Clinton deluded.

>

Someone should ask her about the rights, the human rights, the dignity and future of the Libyan people after she helped destroy the country, killed hundreds of thousands and made thousands more refugees who are living in basically concentration camps without enough food, water and adequate clothing for the winter conditions.

Gawd I hope that there is a hell for people like her that don't give a rat's ass for anyone who happens to live where there are resources that the corporations want!

@LaFeminista Congress? As long as Israel politically agrees and the Saudis are paying...Congress is more than happy to have a President blow up nations without a thought they should be involved......

for this. Where is congress?

@CB
You did the same things in Iraq except you used bombs to kill more people than Assad allegedly did.
And about those refugees, why are you blocking them from coming here?
Gawd's wisdom? You dumb fuck! You can't use bombs to get a peaceful resolution.
Are you even aware that the last time the sarin gas was used in Syria it came from Turkey who gave it to Our Moderate Rebels and they used it on the Syrian people?
Or that Assad gave his chemical weapons to the US who said that they destroyed it?
And you end this by saying "Gawd Bless America".
If there is a Gawd, I'm pretty sure that he wouldn't be blessing this country for what its been doing since its inception.
If I recall the Ten Commandments correctly, Gawd said Thou Shalt Not Kill!
Barf bag indeed.

Listen to this shit. Make sure you have a barf bag at hand.

@gjohnsit what Trump is trying to accomplish with this senseless bombing. My first thought though was why didn't they target Damascus or Assad himself if they want to get rid of him or maybe that's next.

Aleppo had fallen. The IS caliphate is nearing an end.
The peace talks had some success.

Now it's all been flushed.

If Trump really wants regime change then things will get very ugly.

@snoopydawg Party faithful.

The main reason I left, any thought of ever supporting the DP or their associated candidates again.

Some people are saying that the bombings are to take attention away from his involvement with Russia. Basically he's wagging the dog.

Russia is not going to be impressed by this attempt to divert American attention from Russian connections with the Trump cabal.

After being shown a video of Hillary calling for air strikes against Syrian airfields,

Thanks very much. Maybe for once Trump is taking advice from a seasoned professional who bases her recommendations on deep understanding and well-considered analysis.

Can't help myself, the insanity is too fun to watch

You could argue that maybe she wouldn't have been dumb enough to give Assad assurances last week, emboldening him.

But yes, if this is what it seems to be, a targeted strike aimed at screwing up Assad’s chemical weapons capability, Clinton would have absolutely done this sort of thing. It’s the kind of action that has picked up Democratic support in the past.

Yep, I believe that is a true statement since I didn't see anyone upset with Barack for starting the whole clusterfuck.
As expected the first person who doesn't think this is a good idea got jumped on.

I can already smell the cognitive dissonance from Democrats. They’ve spent months rattling sabers, flinging accusations of “acts of war” against Russia, making excuses for Hillary Clinton’s hawkishness on Syria, accusing Trump of coddling dictators and letting Putin’s ally Assad run amok, etc. Now Trump gives us the military action against Assad that Hillary Clinton promised as a candidate and called for again just a few hours ago. Democratic Party loyalists will have a jumble of conflicting thoughts to sort out.
But war in Syria is an easy question for those of us who are consistently anti-war. We will oppose it.

Why exactly are you here? Your sole purpose seems to be to attack Democrats, no matter the subject.

You're still here bashing democrats?
This site is obviously not for you.
You add add nothing to the conversation besides attempting to derail and threadjack it.

Fortress America! Bring all the troops home! Close all foreign bases! Butter, not guns!
The pure pacifist heart. We are in awe of you.

Guess I won't leave my comment there if the first benign one got that type of response

@snoopydawg Oh wait...

Some people are saying that the bombings are to take attention away from his involvement with Russia. Basically he's wagging the dog.

Russia is not going to be impressed by this attempt to divert American attention from Russian connections with the Trump cabal.

After being shown a video of Hillary calling for air strikes against Syrian airfields,

Thanks very much. Maybe for once Trump is taking advice from a seasoned professional who bases her recommendations on deep understanding and well-considered analysis.

Can't help myself, the insanity is too fun to watch

You could argue that maybe she wouldn't have been dumb enough to give Assad assurances last week, emboldening him.

But yes, if this is what it seems to be, a targeted strike aimed at screwing up Assad’s chemical weapons capability, Clinton would have absolutely done this sort of thing. It’s the kind of action that has picked up Democratic support in the past.

Yep, I believe that is a true statement since I didn't see anyone upset with Barack for starting the whole clusterfuck.
As expected the first person who doesn't think this is a good idea got jumped on.

I can already smell the cognitive dissonance from Democrats. They’ve spent months rattling sabers, flinging accusations of “acts of war” against Russia, making excuses for Hillary Clinton’s hawkishness on Syria, accusing Trump of coddling dictators and letting Putin’s ally Assad run amok, etc. Now Trump gives us the military action against Assad that Hillary Clinton promised as a candidate and called for again just a few hours ago. Democratic Party loyalists will have a jumble of conflicting thoughts to sort out.
But war in Syria is an easy question for those of us who are consistently anti-war. We will oppose it.

Why exactly are you here? Your sole purpose seems to be to attack Democrats, no matter the subject.

You're still here bashing democrats?
This site is obviously not for you.
You add add nothing to the conversation besides attempting to derail and threadjack it.

Fortress America! Bring all the troops home! Close all foreign bases! Butter, not guns!
The pure pacifist heart. We are in awe of you.

Guess I won't leave my comment there if the first benign one got that type of response

@Azazello
Why did the US rush this attack without waiting for proof? That's what you do with a false flag event, take advantage of the situation before anyone can doubt the truth of the claimed event. I want to see lab tests, autopsies and shell fragments traceable to the Syrian airforce. Why not make sure that you are right before destroying people and property. The airfield can be made usable within hours of an attack with bulldozers. Russia could replace any equipment lost within days. Russia could stop all cooperation with the US in Syria, or anywhere else, against terrorism. Tillerson then spoke of an ominous threat to remove Assad. Are we looking at the beginning of another ME mass slaughter, another state in total chaos? Does the Deep State have a death wish for all of us?
It's morning in Moscow and the Kremlin is formulating a response. It can't be good.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnSAB4qeDug width:500 height:300]

@Azazello
BBC says it's chlorine.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnSAB4qeDug width:500 height:300]

@Azazello is "powerful" testimony.

You know, like Nayirah's testimony to Congress about Iraqi soldiers murdering babies in incubators:

Except it was later discovered that she was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S., and her "testimony" was written by a Kuwaiti P.R. firm.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnSAB4qeDug width:500 height:300]

@mimi

Global pathological corruption everywhere... Except among many of the 99% who so greatly outnumber the fascist Parasite Class and form their servants and military.

Russia condemns U.S. missile strike on Syria

THE U.S. AIR STRIKE IN SYRIA: FIRST THOUGHTS - By The New Yorker 12:13 A.M.

Coverage in German public mainstream media this morning (a good hour ago German time) with google translation excerpts:
US-Angriff auf Luftwaffenbasis
Putin sieht Beziehung zu USA gefährdet - Stand: 07.04.2017 08:41 Uhr

Russian President Putin spoke of an "aggression against a sovereign nation" with regard to the US offensive. The air raids violated international law and were a serious obstacle to the formation of an international coalition in the fight against terrorism. The head of the Defense Committee in the Russian Parliament, Viktor Oserov, told the RIA Agency, Russia urged an emergency session of the UN Security Council.

Support for the attack was given to the US government by, among others, the UK, France and Saudi Arabia. A spokesman for the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, said the action was an appropriate response to the "barbaric chemical weapons attack" of the Syrian government.

France's foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault called the attack a warning to a "criminal regime". The future of Syria is not connected with President Bashar al-Assad. The Americans started to clear their position.

Saudi Arabia: "Bold decision"

Saudi Arabia spoke of a "courageous decision trumps". Saudi Arabia has assured the US full support, the Foreign Ministry said.

The Syrian opposition also welcomed the attack on a Syrian air base. She hopes that the US offensive will be continued to stop the Syrian air raids and the "use of internationally ostracized weapons," says a spokesman for the Syrian National Coalition.

Consent also of Democrats

Trump received US-wide approval from the US Congress. It is right to make clear to the Syrian leader Assad "that he pays a price for committing such abominable abominations," Chuck Schumer, chairman of the democratic minority in the Senate, declared.

The representative of the House of Representatives, Republican Paul Ryan, called the procedure "appropriate and correct". The air raids on the Al-Shairat base in Homs province made it clear that "the Assad regime can no longer count on the inactivity of the US if it commits atrocities against Syrian citizens." "

Sharp criticism of the attack came from Iran, reported the news agency Insa, citing a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry. Such attacks would strengthen terrorists in Syria and make the situation in the civil war country and the region more difficult.

My sig says it all...

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal

those "rescuers" would be keeling over, too. Even organophosphates would be affecting them.

Wow, look at the people handling those bodies without gloves, and with their masks only partially covering their faces.

Poison gas. Yeah. Right.