WASHINGTON – Reports Wednesday indicate that the U.S. is inching closer to a retaliatory military strike on Syria after its supposed use of chemical weapons on its own people.
The U.S. has said that although the war in Syria has raged for two years and nearly 100,000 have died as a result of it, the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government is a game-changer.
“Secretary Kerry and I attempted to make clear yesterday that there is no doubt here that chemical weapons were used on a massive scale on August 21st outside of Damascus,” a White House spokesman said Monday. “There is also very little doubt, and should be no doubt for anyone who approaches this logically, that the Syrian regime is responsible for the use of chemical weapons on August 21st outside of Damascus.
“We have established with a high degree of confidence that the Syria regime has used chemical weapons already in this conflict. We have made clear that it is our firm assessment that the Syrian regime has maintained control of the stockpile of chemical weapons in Syria throughout this conflict. It is also the case that the Syrian regime has the rocket capacity to deliver the chemical weapons as they were delivered with repugnant results on August 21st outside of Damascus.”
U.S. ally Britian on Tuesday was pressing other United Nations members to approve military action, it was reported. U.N. weapons inspectors are in the war-torn nation now, but security concerns are hampering their investigations.
Meanwhile, Iran warned against any military action against Syria, saying “severe repercussions” would be in store.
“Our region and the Middle East region is in a critical situation and needs peace, restraint, and tolerance,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi told reporters on Tuesday.
The New York Times reported that “Iranian lawmakers and commanders issued stark warnings to the United States and its allies on Tuesday, saying any military strike on Syria would lead to a retaliatory attack on Israel fanned by ‘the flames of outrage.’”
At the same time, U.S. military leaders said this week that they are “ready to go” if called into action.
Now that Obama has shot off his big mouth again which is easy to do when you are not the one being shot at, what is he going to do now that he has lost the support in Europe? It is obvious that Putin has no respect at all for him. If he backs down he looks like what he is which is a fool. If he fires on Syria the Russians just might attack our ships. So, what is he going to do? Get our people killed for the Muslims?
yep, that way the Russians can do to us what he can’t.
Nothing like all the Muslim sympathizer’s we have in the White House now. Obama and all his Muslim brotherhood czars. Who woulda thought????
The thing that pisses me off is that only 1 news agency reported his connections before the elections, Fox News, and nobody believed them. They called them all kinds of names and now we see that EVERYTHING fox News reported about Obama is true and yet the Obama slaves still can’t see the light.
@Peter L.-why is it that every time someone says something about Osama Obama you people want to bring up Bush. Afetr all these years that is getting really old. Bush has nothing to do with Osama Obama’s mistake’s.
Just watch this all play out. Iraq, Afghanistan, soon Syria and then Egypt. We just paid the price in Benghazi and now we will spend more of our precious blood and treasure on middle east oil. They have us by the nads.
You forget that Obama is a muslim and he is using our military as his personal fighing force, to attack those that hurt his people. If he feels that strong about it then give him a rifle and a gas mask and send him over there.
Amen!!!
@maybe-I hear that!
I agree. Haven’t we learned anything? We need take care of and defend our own. The hell with the middle east!
Retaliatory for what? They didn’t attack the U.S.A. or any American Citizens. Why the hell do we have to defend all those Muslims. Let the Muslims do it. That’s right, they are to busy killing eachother.