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“Almost Completely Destroyed”: Syria Strikes Hit Their Target

Posted On 07 Apr 2017
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According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, U.S. airstrikes targeting the Syrian government “almost completely destroyed” the airfield from which Tuesday’s chemical weapons attack was launched.

President Trump authorized a limited and decisive strike against the Assad regime this week after the devastating chemical attack on the Homs province.

“Initial indications are that this strike has severely damaged or destroyed Syrian aircraft and support infrastructure and equipment at Shayrat Airfield, reducing the Syrian government’s ability to deliver chemical weapons,” Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis told Reuters.

Asked about the possibility of additional military action against the Assad regime, Davis simply said it was “the regime’s choice.” In other words, try using those chemical weapons again. If you want to go the way of Saddam Hussein and other Middle Eastern dictators who have committed atrocities, be our guest.

This is what it means to be a leader on the international stage. Trump has been every bit as reluctant to use the military abroad as Obama ever was, but there’s a difference: Trump knows when the time for talk is over. He understands that he’s not just a politician in a fancy suit; he’s the commander-in-chief of the world’s mightiest military. He understands the responsibility that comes with that role. He isn’t afraid to use that might to stand up for what’s right. That’s the difference.

And as Bashar al-Assad discovered on Thursday, it’s a big one.


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  • jgfsmf

    In all the stories I’ve read today, the US struck the airfield where the chemical weapons came from. No where have I seen that the gas “possibly” came from there. It seems they are sure of this. If that’s true, then this attack was totally justified. Trump drew the line and he’s not afraid to hold it.

    • WhiteFalcon

      Apparently we have satellite pictures of their planes taking off at the time of the attack and of them being over that particular piece of land at the exact time the bombs were dropped and then returning to that particular base. That is pretty strong evidence.

      • jgfsmf

        Thank you for that information! I knew he had to have proof.

        • rfrichey

          I can assure he had proof, the same as he did when he said that obozo was spying on him and his future possible staff. Trump doesn’t go off half cocked regardless of what the lefties tell the dolts who will listen to them.

    • rick meek

      Yes – they have radar tracks – sat data and even visual……

  • Well Done POTUS

  • Bruce Walters

    Good, we finally have a President who’s not afraid to show and use American muscle

  • ralph

    I agree with Trump that some thing had to be done, and the next move would be totally with them to not use Chemical weapons. Sorry we had to do that but it was all out there on the table he just had to push

  • sandraleesmith46

    The “down” side to this is, even though Russians were warned away and not harmed, Putin is an ally of Assad; and may not take this lying down on the job either. He may well take a stance that this is an indirect attack on Russia as well as Syria. and that can become problematic. I HOPE Putin sees that the chemical attack on the Syrian peoples was unjustified and should be dealt with harshly; but that may not prove to be the case.

    • Randy Lewis

      I understand the concern about Russia but, the use of chemical weapons is a crime against humanity. If the Russians don’t support our reaction then, they are no better than Assad and so be it!

      • sandraleesmith46

        I agree, the use of such weapons is unconscionable; I’ve had personal exposure to a similar substance, many years ago and am well acquainted with what they do to a body. However, I’m also well aware of what Putin is capable of doing, if he takes this the wrong way; and that he could well do so. His people were warned, but he wasn’t consulted about it first; and that’s the move that concerns me. as to what “blow back” might come out of this on the US, as a result.

      • HairBare

        And they shall receive what they support! Putin wants the world to think Russia is big and bad just because he is from the tough guy era. He just LOOKED big and bad when we had the clown in the white house. Well he better wake up QUICK the A team is control now. Him and the madmen of Iran best get back in the back seat and watch and learn.
        Bozo gave Putin the keys to the truck, Trump just TOOK them back!!!

    • InternetCensorsREvil

      I hope the snowflakes in our political and public arenas see that Trump isn’t afraid to tweak Russia’s nose – further evidence that any alleged ties between Trump and Russia is baseless. You don’t bit the hand that feeds you and Trump just bit – hard.

      • sandraleesmith46

        You also don’t tweak the tiger’s tail, unless you’re prepared to kill it, and the US isn’t in a military position to take on Russia in an all out war at present!

        • Deplorable wizard

          Frankly Russia is not in a position to take on the U.S. in an all out war either. They are, just as we are, dealing with economic recovery, infrastructure failings, internal turmoil, etcetera. Their advantage would be that the general population is more accustomed to living with less and their media doesn’t lean to the left so far their rainbow panties are exposed.

          If an “all out war” between Russia and the U.S. were to happen, both sides would be defeated, even without nukes. And both leaders know this. With nukes, the entire world loses, and again, both leaders know this as well.

          Any war between Russia and the United States would be fought in the sand boxes and mountains of the middle east and southern Eurasia and north Africa. Both leaders know that this would accomplish multiple resolutions to on going problems with the least internal damage. The fighting would be vicious and technologically challenging but could be economically stimulating to not only their respective nations but the world as a whole.

          • sandraleesmith46

            Putin’s old USSR, a left-over of that soviet mindset. Generally, he’s pretty smart and savvy as a leader, but that hankering for the old USSR is there; and I wouldn’t bet on him NOT going nuclear and aggressive.

          • Deplorable wizard

            Vlad is too smart for that. There might be some naval battles, a fair bit of air battles, and a good amount of ground warfare – probably using the native populations for the most part – but nukes by the nature of the mutual retaliation, would be a self defeating proposition. And he knows that.

        • bttrap

          thanks to obambie, trump will get the military in the right position just takes time

        • InternetCensorsREvil

          Russia isn’t interested in an all out war with the US either and Trump knows this.

          • sandraleesmith46

            Just because Putin doesn’t want it doesn’t mean if you yank him hard enough he won’t do so.

          • InternetCensorsREvil

            Syria wasn’t more than a friendly tap on Russia’s shoulder.

            It actually works in Russia’s favored because now Assad is more likely to by Russian military equipment, which means a boost to Russia’s economy.

            Russia sells them more stuff and we go blow it up.

          • sandraleesmith46

            One problem with that idea; treaties of alliance are kind of promisory notes between gov’ts to protect each other in the event of attacks; and Putin has one with Assad.

          • InternetCensorsREvil

            And China had (s) one with Korea, we have one with Israel and the entire EU.

            Russia knows that world opinion is against Assad, they aren’t going to escalate. Syria isn’t Afganistan and Russia learned her lessons there.

            Russia’s only interest in Syria is her warm water ports. That has always been the motivation for their aggression, ever since Catherine the Great.

          • sandraleesmith46

            Oil too, they need the pipeline to sell theirs to other areas.

  • Randy Lewis

    Finally a leader with some balls!

  • Loving America

    Praise God Almighty for the “Leading of the Spirit ” to lead Our President to Stop these War Criminals in Syria!

    It is so sad today that anyone could kill their own People and especially to think that America would not do a thing about it like Obama did! Sorry But We Know It Is A Sin NOt to help those in need of Our Help!

  • Loving America

    We Do Not have a dictator in Office or a Coward that will not help Others in the World…..Paise God for Trump and ALL His Staff and the Courage of Our Military! Thank You God and Everyone Who Helped President Trump last night! “Oh What A CelecbrationToday for The People of Syria who are going to be Free…Free..Free!’

  • Walt

    Thanks, President Donald Trump for taking the steps to save many more Syrian lives that would have been taken by the chemical attacks using serein gas by Assad régime. Americans are proud of the steps taken and hope that this proves that using serein gas or other chemicals of mass destruction will not be tolerated.

  • john

    30 million dollars to destroy a sand coon airfield that only cost 1 million to build ? We should have put a jihad man behind the controls of an old Boeing jetliner filled with jet fuel – basically the same effect but much lower cost.

  • Pamela Sue Therrien

    and sad to say this was the third time… so many have died this way while nothing has been done leaving us first but all Nations open for such attacks and that is a serious situation indeed!

  • thereasonableman

    $40-60 mil worth of missiles to take out one airfield, no strikes on the command & control systems that ordered and directed the MWD attack- so it was a mere pin-prick to Assad and won’t stop further attacks on Syrian civilians. The Russians will replace the aircraft destroyed and the slaughter of the innocents will continue. Now that DJT is talking regime change instead of his previous position going back to 2013 which was that the US should stay out of Syria, let’s see what his long game is now.

    • undouble

      The airfield was a “HARD TARGET”——the so-called “masterminds” behind the sarin gas attack could be (and probably are) hiding ANYWHERE in (or out of) Syria. When children are using their toys to hurt others–parents take away the TOYS!!——not the children———–and hope the lesson permeates their children’s skulls———–else “rinse and repeat” until the lesson is learned.

      • thereasonableman

        Syrian AF HQ and Syrian military HQ are also hard targets. And DJT talking about retaliating for two days before launching the missile attack made sure that those responsible, including Assad’s Russian enablers on the ground, had plenty of time to run and hide. I’m sure the Navy already had a target list and did not need 2 days to plan the strike. And if Russian intel was doing its job they watched the Navy destroyers move into position for the missile launch. Next time, go after command and control, and don’t telegraph the attack in advance.

        • undouble

          Thanks for the cogent response. Your points are valid—–but incomplete. In that country, I don’t believe any military command figure is allowed to breathe without Assad’s permission—-with LOTS of cutouts in between. Since Assad is “off limits” we restricted ourselves to what we KNEW was a solid target while minimizing “collateral damage”.

  • Larry Good

    They can drop those Tomahawks In a hat.

  • Tiger

    Great job on Trump’s part. The Russians in the area were given a warning and left. Assad again broke International Law. Putin had to condemn the strike by Assad and did and now saying hey I can’t control what the guy does. Very interesting.

    Trump makes me unhappy with some things but when the good far outweighs the bad then he is doing a great job.

  • tom cook

    All of the credulous stop and think: Assad had nothing to gain by using chemical weapons against a few ragheads. This stinks of a false flag op and the likely culprit is us–the U.S.

    • Joseph Carrilho

      BINGO!!!
      1) I tend to think it was another false flag like it was in 2013.
      2) It is NOT America’s job to ‘police’ the rest of the world.
      3) the culprit is most likely the CIA, Mossad, (and) or MI-6.
      4) What were Syria and Libya’s problem in the first place???
      They didn’t have any central banks fuuking them up.

      I understand that N. Korea and Cuba are there only nations left that don’t
      have central banks – maybe Iceland as well.

      Lincoln and Kennedy did NOT want central banks either
      and both were assassinated; I think banksters ordered those killings.

      • thereasonableman

        You and tom cook must be Russian trolls- go back to Moscow . Putin said the saddest day in his life was the day the USSR was dissolved- now he wants to recreate it.

  • curmudgeon VN Veteran

    W said the weapons of mass destruction had been moved to Syria. Believe him now or do we believe Mrs Bill Clinton that the nerve gas had been destroyed? One of those folks is a bald faced liar and she just got creamed by President Trump.

  • thereasonableman

    He does basically the same thing as Obama- a pin prick to Assad with no long-term effect and everybody stands up and cheers-go figure….@ about $60 mil worth of missiles per strike, how many pin pricks can we afford to inflict?
    ….but nobody knows what would happen and who takes over if you take Assad out. Last time we did regime change w/o knowing what do do after it didn’t work out too well.

  • Harold Sammons

    Assad must have taken lessons from his mentor Saddam Hussein; who tested out poison gas on many followers of Islam, as well as, inferior infidels, not excepting, gender, age or ethnicity!

  • donl

    Thank You Mr. President.

  • Guy Smith

    I suspect that Putin encouraged Assad to make this chemical attack as a test of President Trump. It carried no risk for any real Russian interest, and provided a real test of Trump’s resolve and courage. A brilliant ploy, and at test that Trump passed with flying colors. Mr. Trump also delivered a strong message to Iran, China and North Korea. I support his action completely

  • Richard Bagenstose

    well i hear them crying about the 6 that were supposedly killed but not 1 word about the 35 isis executed the next day, after the tans of thousands assad has killed he wants to cry about 6 of his soldgers being killed

  • river

    Perhaps it was a failed mission. They didn’t put a Tomahawk into Assad’s bedroom while he slept.

  • Michael Dennewitz

    At loooonggg last, we have a president with a set of balls! The only possible backside to this is that it pissed Putin off. Yet, if Putin has a brain at all, he’ll think this scenario out and realize you DON’T MESS WITH AMERICA !!
    Now, if someone would just “take out” the little halfbreed queer……

  • rick meek

    Still functional and being rebuilt…..Ya have to put the plants outta commission – they’re still making WMD’s…

  • Robbert Hoekstra Azusa

    Unfortunately, just as happened with what the Arab Muslim Hussein Obama did in Libya, the United States of America is doing the dirty work for Al Qaida and ISIS, I e Islam. With Islam life does not matter, as long as the objective is accomplished. Global conquest. Refugees do not happen, they are purposely, methodically and intentionally created. In order to understand one has to be able to think like fanatic and radical Islamists. For nearly two thousand years people have been massacred in the interest of Islam, and it is still going on till the objective has been accomplished. Since WWII refugees have been the results of American Foreign policy and her involvement in the political affairs of foreign countries in the interest of the American Government, not the people, at the cost of billions of dollars to the taxpayers. However, with the influx of the hundreds of thousands of Arab Muslim refugees the added “bonus” of the hate and rage issue of revenge has to be added to it. Their main issue is first and foremost the destruction of Israel. To accomplish this their main objective is to take control of Israel’s major ally, the United States, from within by infiltrating her government. It should be obvious to anybody with some education that this is happening today with the collaboration of the left wing’s hate and rage Agenda of REVENGE of the Democrat Party and those opposing PRESIDENT Donald Trump, the ELECTED one.

  • gotabgood

    Trump hasn’t changed… He will turn on a dime and give you 9 cents change on EVERY ISSUE. Syria is no different than anything else he spoke about!
    Trump’s View of Syria: How It Evolved, in 19 Tweets
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/us/politics/donald-trump-syria-twitter.html
    (Pictures of the actual tweets)
    With that said. It is time that someone stood up to the killer Assad, which in another tweet PRAISED ASSAD!!

    North Korea is/will be a little different… we fought that war once before…. This time China could have a say in what goes on… So lets add this up… we piss Russia off over Syria… now we are going to piss China off over N. Korea. So the next two power houses are or will be mad at us…. and we insult our allies… and this nation is so divided that we will not share a fox hole if you happen to be a Liberal…
    Do you see it a different way??

    Watch out… you’ll never know which direction trump will go..

  • gotabgood

    “Almost Completely Destroyed”
    But they are up and running since Friday.

  • gotabgood
  • gotabgood

    “Almost Completely Destroyed”
    Is that any thing like, almost completely pregnant?

  • HairBare

    The big story here is NOW we have a President that KNOWS the difference between RIGHT AND WRONG! Barry was such a boy toy to George Sorros he has NO Ideas that are his own. He was and still is a puppet with Sorros Hand moving him. For the LIFE OF ME I can NOT understand how or WHY anyone could, would or did, vote for him. Oh well YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID!

  • Jimmy King

    What a joke. “Almost completely destroyed” and planes were up and flying these airfields the next day. He gave Russia the heads up, who of course passed it on to Syria, who then went and secured most of their planes The clown who wouldn’t tell anyone his policy regarding ISIS because he doesn’t tip off his enemies, tipped off his enemies




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