He's CONNING us about the Syrian bombing. Con-man donald at work.

[Equinox Moon]

As this bombing event unfolds, it is clear to me it is a con.

59 missiles! could not hit the airstrip? It was left fully intact.

The damage of 59 missiles was minor compared to what those missiles were capable of.

Yes, tragically, 6 Syrians are reported killed and unknown numbers of injured, yet Russia was forewarned to clear out. Donald killed more people in the Yemen raid and the other recent Syrian bombing. Our military knows how to be destructive and kill. This was a careful attack.

I think con-man donald wanted to show the world he is anti-Russia, but he is not. This probably was a back-channel deal to take-off the pressure over the donald/Russia travesty, in multiple ways. Will it deliver his desired results? Most of us are not that stupid. Nothing this con-man says or does can be trusted. Look at the actual event and its results to see his bluff.

[furtheradu]

1. Recd a bazillion times

SO sick of this evil administration & the evil they do.

[mopinko]

2. kobuki

[uponit7771]

3. ... and the Syrians resumed operations FROM THAT BASE TODAY !!!

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/warplanes-from-syrian-base-hit-by-us-just-carried-out-airstrikes-in-homs/

[Equinox Moon]

5. Yes they did!

[caroldansen]

4. I agree. I thought thats what he was doing after what he said.

[jmg257]

6. 20 aircaft, fuel and munitions storage facilities, bunkers...seems pretty good...

Defense officials said that at least 20 aircraft were destroyed on the ground at the Shayrat airbase north of Damascus and heavy damage was inflicted on bunkers, fuel and munitions storage facilities and air defense radars by the BQM-109 Tomahawks carrying 1,000-pound conventional warheads.

The airfield’s two runways mostly escaped damage but Tillerson and defense officials said that the runways were not targeted since they could easily be repaired.

https://www.defensetech.org/2017/04/07/us-strike-damage-syrian-airfield/


Not sure what kind of planes, but F-16s cost $165 Million each, so pretty good killing 20 of theirs.

[Equinox Moon]

7. I appreciate the information update.

I still don't trust that con-man. No-way! Nothing he says or does can be trusted.
Not even this bombing. We will never know the truth.

[jmg257]

8. Agreed on the truth stuff - we just never know. Sad.

[dchill]

9. A surgical NON-strike?

[Equinox Moon]

22. Say more so I understand your question.

[dchill]

32. A strike meant to do minimal damage.

[mountain grammy]

10. don the con. I agree.

[left-of-center2012]

11. Shouldn't 59 cruise missiles obliterate that base? n/t

[Equinox Moon]

23. That's what I would think too.

[NRaleighLiberal]

12. And of course the obligatory CNN Puff/Normalization piece

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/07/politics/donald-trump-syria-evolution/index.html

[Equinox Moon]

13. During Democracy NOW! reporting today

they played a segment from ABC news actually describing the missiles as "beautiful". It was almost a poetic commentary on the beauty of the missiles being fired.

Wow! These people are really sick.

[NRaleighLiberal]

14. They are bought. It is all and only about money.

[Equinox Moon]

17. Indeed.

You know how we have treatment centers for additions. Greed needs to be added to their programs.

[NRaleighLiberal]

18. it needs to be eliminated from human beings version 2.0, along with

narcissism. we have some serious issues, we humans version 1!

[Equinox Moon]

20. I know you were not trying to be funny, but I am smiling at your comment.

Yes, we need a do-over on most human beings.

[Pachamama]

31. "....and the Rockets Red Glare....that the flag was still there..."

[oberliner]

36. Wasn't that Brian Williams on MSNBC?

I thought he was the one talking about the beauty of the missiles, not ABC news.

[Equinox Moon]

38. I think you are correct and I had the incorrect media source.

I was plucking it from memory. Ha!

[keithbvadu2]

15. Trump decides to strike Syria ... and then;

Trump decides to strike Syria ... and then;

Trump forewarns Putin.

Putin forewarns Syria.

Syria moves weapons, aircraft and equipment away from strike zone.

Thursday... Trump strikes Syrian air base with many Tomahawks to show how tough he is.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/warplanes-from-syrian-base-hit-by-us-just-carried-out-airstrikes-in-homs/

Friday... Syrian warplanes took off from the airbase struck Thursday night by U.S. cruise missiles

Wonder if critical parts of the air base were really targeted?

Boy, that sure showed Assad, eh?

Are they giving out points in this game?

[zentrum]

16. Furthermore, Syria is already....

....flying missions out of the airbase that Trump bombed, according to Abigail Tracy of Vanity Fair.

She says:

Trump could fall down the slippery slope President Barack Obama—whose interventionist policies Trump regularly derided on the campaign trail (emphasis added)—long warned against. As Obama explained to The Atlantic in an interview last April, it was his administration’s “assessment that while we could inflict some damage on Assad, we could not, through a missile strike, eliminate the chemical weapons themselves, and what I would then face was the prospect of Assad having survived the strike and claiming he had successfully defied the United States, that the United States had acted unlawfully in the absence of a U.N. mandate, and that that would have potentially strengthened his hand rather than weakened it.” It now appears that is precisely the situation confronting President Trump.

So as I understand it, by telling Russia before the strikes, (which he had to do to avoid killing Russian personnel) Russia told Assad and Assad moved everything that would effect his capacity to use chemical weapons in the future.
So it was a useless, but very dangerous strike.

This is why you need congressional over sight. But of course, the Repugs just broke Congress too.

[Equinox Moon]

19. Yep. It is a functional airstrip.

How odd.

And, most people do not go deep into the topics to learn such things. They hear the bumper sticker that con-man did the strike and they know nothing else.

[Hulk]

21. $60,000,000 for his little fireworks show on an empty air field in forewarned Syria.

Nice shootin', Tex.

[Equinox Moon]

24. Wow, that is a big number.

Republicans are expensive, this one in particular.

[Fast Walker 52]

27. more like $90,000,000.... $90 million

[Equinox Moon]

30. $90 mil and 59! - thousand pound missiles (each) - somehow missed the airstrip!

[L. Coyote]

25. Big Bird read what was coming on Twitter and flew off.

Everyone in the world knew what was going to happen beforehand, what a huge disaster militarily. Of course, if the idea was toi garner a large television audiernce, the fireworks show was a success.

Big Bird lives still, but the Constitution was blown to bits.

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

35. +1

[Bernardo de La Paz]

26. Remember tRump's failed raid at Yakla that killed an American girl? Now he's Zero for Two. . . nt

[Equinox Moon]

28. ZERO for Three

This is trumps 2nd Syrian bombing. The other was called "US backed". That one killed a multiple civilians.

[doc03]

29. Well he has the clowns that voted for him running around doing

that stupid thumbs up thing again.

[Beartracks]

33. You can tell he's working a con: his lips are moving. n/t

[Equinox Moon]

34. Interesting awareness.

I am unable to look at him for fear of throwing up, so I literally shield by eyes or turn my back to the screen. Increasingly, I turn it off if he is so-called speaking.

[oberliner]

37. What are you saying was the back-channel deal?

Between which parties? To what end?

[6000eliot]

39. Of course he is.

When has he EVER been on the up-and-up about ANYTHING? The only question is whether the gullible media will buy it.

[Equinox Moon]

40. I believe they already did.

[EX500rider]

41. "59 missiles! could not hit the airstrip? It was left fully intact."

Cruise missiles can not be used for taking out runways, that takes special penetrating munitions, which can only be plane dropped.
Also runways can be fixed and back up and running in a few hours anyway..(you are just filling in some craters) Much better to strike the planes, tank farms, ordnance storage, control towers, radars, barracks, etc.