About-face on Syria

2013 Sarin Gas Attack in Syria

These are two of Donald Trump’s many comments following the August 2013 Sarin attack by Bashar al-Assad which killed more than ten times the number of people than the most recent.

Congressional approval
Congressional approval
Foolish Leader
Foolish Leader

Deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, Sebastian Gorka, said Friday that, “Trump’s past tweets arguing against military action in Syria shouldn’t be held against him because Trump wasn’t president then.”

Donald Trump must not be allowed to weasel his way out of these comments by backroom writers and administration staff “clarifying” his comments and tweets. He said it over and over again; clearly he meant it. And, in the 2013 Sarin attack more than ten times the number of people died.

In October 2012, Trump suggested a military strike in the Middle East would boost Obama’s approval ratings.

Launch Strike
Launch Strike

Hillary Clinton “wants to start a shooting war in Syria… that could very well lead to World War III,” Trump said in Florida days before Election Day, 2016.

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  1. Syria April 11, 2017
    “Pro-Assad warplanes dropped white phosphorus on the town of Saraqeb in Idlib province,” local media activist Sulaiman Maarawi told ARA News.

    LATEST: The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Russian jets had used an incendiary substance called thermite in bombs they dropped over the towns of Saraqeb in Idlib and al-Latamenah in Hama, further south, on Saturday and Sunday.

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