The United States launched cruise missiles against an airbase in Syria Thursday night in retaliation for this week's chemical weapons attack against civilians, U.S. officials said. It was the first direct U.S. assault on the Syrian government and Donald Trump's most dramatic military order since becoming president. Read a transcript of the statement by the Pentagon, as well as the statement Trump made shortly after the attack.



http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-missile-transcript-pentagon-1.4059826



Strangely enough this is the very type of military action Trump was against while Obama was P.O.T.U.S.

Trump’s Line on Syria

Probably because he knows more now than he did then.
What's strange is Obama's gave only lip service.
Obama's red line was a joke.

Israel wants Assad gone, period... Trump is going to side with Israel now that he has a Jewish daughter... That's my 2 cents worth...

Syria agreed in 2013 to destroy its stockpiles of chemical weapons as part of a deal brokered between former President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A year later, then-Secretary of State John Kerry said that Syria's chemical weapons were "100 percent" destroyed.

john Kerry and liberals... Need I say more?

Funny how you forget Obama went to congress for approval of use of force but congress refused. Odd how it is lip service following the mandate of the Constitution.

Weapons of mass destruction Saddam has them and we know were they are. President Bush need I say more for republicans.

In 2013 Obama went to Congress to get approval for military action. Congress refused to authorize any action.

Trump on the other hand seems to have done so without Congress.

Syria is laughing and stating that there will will be no change in leadership. That it views the action as aggression on a sovereign nation. Russia, allied with Syria, views it the same way.

The message has been sent to Syria so now .. is that to followed with more military action? Will there be troops sent? Buildings were destroyed but the tarmac is unscathed..perhaps for use later?

Russian troops at the base were warned of the impending attack. Does anyone seriously think they did not advise their Syrian allies?

Trump spent his time saying that Obama should stay out of Syria, avoid military action in Syria .... there was no benefit to America from such actions and US had lost enough $$$$ and troops in Mid-East. Yet he launches an attack because Syria used toxins against it's population. The same men, women, children and "beautiful babies" that he won't allow as refugees trying to escape those attacks.

If he is ready to commit an act of war on Syria is he also ready to accept those seeking to escape that war?

when we're they gassing women and children while obarry was in office? He said they had no gas, just like bush said there were WMDS IN Iraq...odd how the same gas Saddam was said to have gets used in Syria, on kids...

Besides being a compulsive Liar, Obama was a gutless leader too, afraid to act without Pelosi and Reid's approval.

Hmm, S400 air defense systems shut off?

One hour notice to the Russians?



this tells me the investigation into Russian meddling in the US elections is getting juicy... they're trying to throw us off by creating a post cold war revival.

Everything back to normal as long as Russia stays the enemy right?

Its a cesspool..am I stating something that is not true? has been for a long time. A home base for a lot that is wrong.. again saying something that is not true?

Trump hired a General ( U.S Marines).. who knows only one thing.. how to defeat the enemy.. that's it.. look at the guy.. look at his history.. you tell me.

What should have been done in the last 8 years.. but wasn't.. will be done.

Deal with it

I think warning the Russians is a point showing we don't wanna go to war with them...

And .... a new Cold War begins

Russia to help Syria beef up air defenses


MOSCOW (AP) —

The Russian military says it will help Syria beef up its air defenses after the U.S. strike on a Syrian air base.

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Friday that a "complex of measures" to strengthen Syrian air defenses will be done shortly to help "protect the most sensitive Syrian infrastructure facilities."

Konashenkov said "the combat efficiency of the U.S. strike was very low," adding that only 23 of the 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles reached the Shayrat air base in the province of Homs.

He said it destroyed six MiG-23 fighter jets of the Syrian air force which were under repairs, but didn't damage other Syrian warplanes at the base.

Konashenkov added that the base's runway also has been left undamaged.


http://wjla.com/news/nation-world/russian-military-says-it-will-help-syria-strengthen-its-air-defenses-after-us-strike


Russian warship heads toward US destroyers after strike on Syria


A Russian warship headed Friday to the area in the eastern Mediterranean where the two US Navy destroyers that launched 59 cruise missiles into Syria were stationed, according to a report.

The frigate Admiral Grigorovich RFS-494 sailed through the Bosphorus Strait from the Black Sea, a US defense official told Fox News.

Also Friday, one of the US destroyers began heading to an undisclosed location to rearm.

A military-diplomatic source in Moscow told the Russian TASS news agency that the Admiral Grigorovich would make a stop at a Syrian base.

“The Russian ship armed with cruise missiles Kalibr will visit the logistics base in Tartus, Syria,” the source said.

The frigate recently replenished its supplies at the Russian city of Novorossiisk and was taking part in a joint exercise with Turkish ships in the Black Sea, TASS reported.
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The source said the duration of the ship’s presence off Syria would depend on the situation — but “in any way it will last more than a month.”


http://nypost.com/2017/04/07/russian-warship-heads-toward-us-destroyers-after-strike-on-syria/




Trump doesn't lie at all. He presents 'alternate facts'.

Russia doesn't want war with us. There are only two countries backing Syria. Russia and Iran. There is even talk of them forming a coalition to remove Assad.

With this move we put both Iran and North Korea on notice. Any more BS and they are next.

Well, I don't think it would be too hard to knock N. Korea back to 1950 in regards to their missile program.

We know where the missiles are.. and the support affiliated with them.

In my opinion, the time will come where we just knock out his entire program.. there is really no reason to do more then that. Let him rant and rave all he wants afterwards.. can't do anything to us.

President Trump is playing the long game. It's nice to have a President that finally thinks several moves ahead.