Not long after officials began confirming that President Trump was “considering” military action against Syria to remove President Bashar Assad from power, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has confirmed that “steps are under way” in the administration for Assad’s ouster.
Exactly what those steps are isn’t totally clear, but Tillerson talked up the idea of an “international community effort” that would both defeat ISIS and remove Assad from power, in additional to “stabilizing” Syria as a whole. Comments from officials familiar with the situation suggest this is almost certain to be military action.
Tillerson went on to say that Assad could have no role in the future government of Syria, and that the US would take an “appropriate response” against him to ensure that this does not happen. Tillerson has insisted only a few days ago that the US was not seeking regime change.
But while seemingly every political figure in the Trump Administration is on board for this war, military and intelligence personnel are said to be increasingly concerned with the narrative line of the government, saying they have major doubts about the Assad gas attack narrative, and are concerned this will escalate into war on a false pretext.
Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi was interviewed on the matter, saying many US intelligence officials believe the Russian narrative that the Syrian airstrike was a conventional bomb that hit an al-Qaeda chemical cache. He added that the US narrative made no sense because Assad would have no motive to launch such a strike.
If Justin doesn’t speak out this time we riot.
Justin will be toast very soon. He bet on the wrong horse.
No, he won’t buckle now. He’ll leave the site before he’ll admit his guilt.
He’s probably gone too far now. But he’ll spin it in a way to make it look like Trump was forced into doing this, or something just as entertaining.
Maybe even accept that Assad actually was responsible for a gas attack! Raimondo’s options have become pretty limited now.
I just can’t see him admitting he made a really big mistake. Thomas Knapp has convinced me that isn’t the nature of the beast.
The big surprise will be on how Trump’s supporters are going to hold on to faith in Trump!
Be careful about talking up a riot. It could be different now from what it was yesterday because of your country now being at war again.
Anyway comrade, I gotta hand it to you for being solid, all except the one time that I warned you about your support of Raimondo’s blabbering coming home to haunt you.
Yup, Raimondo is trying to say that somebody else made Trump do it.
But it’s not worth worrying about anymore because his credibility is gone and he knows it.
We need the USA to sign and ratify the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court. If we are serious about war crimes, the list of people who need to appear in the dock is long, and Assad is down the list. In my opinion.
Free Mordechai Vanunu.
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Ever heard of Operation Market Garden ?
It looks like another one, in view of the major doubts of intelligence and military personnel, it looks like a carefully orchestrated scheme to gain public support for an open attack on Syria.
How do you remove Assad other than either by assassination by drone or chasing the Russians out of Syria? There will be an attack on military bases. And what about not giving the opponent time to prepare? Both Assad and the Russians now have several hours to get their defenses ready. If US bombers depart from Incirlik Turkey is involved.
Do not dream, as you and all of us will perish, and there will be nothing left of the Earth.
It will be as Putin says again …. are you Hitlers ancestor and you think only of killing people …..
Which pretty well thoroughly puts the lie to this being a one-off strike on Syria. For fu– sake, they can’t even get together to lie in sync!
How bloody transparent phony can it get? As if Assad would attack his own people with gas when it’s so obvious that the US was pissing it’s collective pants waiting for something like that to happen.
Of course Assad didn’t. The US even made preparations for this scam for war going back to nearly the beginning of Trump’s rise to power.
But there is not going to be any chance of breaking through the US propaganda and so even the most solid proof in Assad’s favour won’t change things in the minds of Americans.
It’s a done deal, all except the details of fu–ing with Russia and China’s interests..
please ………… it was part of the Hillary playbook from when she was Sec of State, what better way to ignite a President that is a known Narcissist than to tell him he is weak for failing to deal with the use of Chemical weapons! Al Nusra Front were caught with Sarin in Turkey a number of years back the same Al Nusra Front the US funds the Same Al Nusra Front that used to be called Al Qaeda in Iraq, the same Al Nusra Front that is the parent of ISIS, the same Al Nusra Front that are supposed to be the United States of America’s moderate Muslim insurgents!
As in Hillary’s foreign legion?!?!?!?
And the neocons get everything they wanted. I wonder which of his family members were threatened with death….if not all of them.
American’s unstated policy to to kill high-value targets once they are identified, and their entire families.
“The future’s so bright…..I’ve gotta wear shades.” – Timbuk3
Here’s wishing bad luck to the yanks!
The Syrian people are the only ones to decide who rules them.. At this time it is Assad. America keep your dirty hands off of Syria. Haven’t we done enough killings aka murders all over the world? Someone put a stop to this madness.
Others have said the same and Assad is still there and will be there after Trump is out of office as well.
The US government never fails to amaze me by which it can lower itself to unheard of levels of utter stupidity.
This is truly a classic case of where the inmates are running the insane asylum… đ
To stabilize Syria after Assad’s ouster, maybe Trump could pull Joe Biden out of retirement and have him run Syria.
Kriste! If there’s any cover to blow over Trump’s attack on Syria, they don’t take very long to blow it!
Like, they are hardly even pretending anymore that it had something to do with a gas attack by Assad!
Assad has no chemical weapons, is not bonkers and as in 2013 would not attack when all that happens is disaster for him.
“Tillerson talked up the idea of an âinternational community effortâ that
would both defeat ISIS and remove Assad from power, in additional to
âstabilizingâ Syria as a whole”.
T Rex lives in wonderland.
It looks like Hillary did win the election.
Trump kisses Israel’s ‘ring’ like all the rest.
This blows away the phony Trump / neo-con claim of sarin gas.
Bare hands and sarin equals a huge problem.
You cannot treat exposure to sarin with your bare hands without falling ill/dead yourself, as the White Helmets were apparently doing in the aftermath of the Idlib attack. See photo below.
see:
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/jumping-conclusions-something-not-adding-idlib-chemical-weapons-attack/
Syria was a major blunder from Trump, he’s now acting like Hillary.
And I voted for Trump.
https://media.almasdarnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1-24-696×463.jpg
Sorry Tillerson, Assad stays if Russia want’s him to stay.
Personally, I found it quite obvious from the way they were manhandling the little children that something wasn’t right. There’s a real possibility that there never was a gas attack by anybody.
Unfortunately, the US is going to short circuit any attempt by the UN to do a proper investigation.
Bring back memories of Hans Blix being cut off at the knees just as he was about to proclaim definitively that there were no WMD’s?