President Trump defends pulling U.S. troops out of Syria after bipartisan backlash

David Jackson  USA TODAY

Published 9:16 AM EST Dec 20, 2018

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump used Twitter on Thursday to defend his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, a move made over the objections of defense officials and a bipartisan group of congressional lawmakers.

"Getting out of Syria was no surprise," Trump said in one post. "I’ve been campaigning on it for years, and six months ago, when I very publicly wanted to do it, I agreed to stay longer."

Now, however, he said it is "time to come home & rebuild."

Members of Congress, however, disputed Trump's contention that the Islamic State terrorist group known as ISIS has been totally defeated and said they would regroup after the U.S. withdraws the 2,000 or so troops it has now in Syria.

Critics also said Trump's decision guarantees that Bashar al Assad of Syria remains in power, benefiting Iran and strengthening Russia's foothold in the Middle East; they also said it would leave Kurdish allies vulnerable to reprisals from ISIS.

“An American withdrawal at this time would be a big win for ISIS, Iran, Bashar al Assad of Syria, and Russia," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., an ally of Trump. He branded Trump's declaration that ISIS has been defeated as "fake news."

Graham said premature troop withdrawals in Iraq and Afghanistan created problems; he also invoked Trump's least favorite political leader, Barack Obama, in tweeting  that “withdrawal of this small American force in Syria would be a huge Obama-like mistake."

Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed news of the U.S. withdrawal from Syria, an idea he has long supported. Trump and Putin discussed Syria during their high profile summit in Helsinki this past July.

President Donald Trump

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"The U.S. is there without backing from the United Nations or an invitation from the Syrian government," Putin told reporters at a news conference Thursday. "Russia is there at the invitation of the Syrian government."

Trump also discussed Syria in a phone call last week with Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has targeted Kurdish fighters he regards as terrorists.

Critics described the withdrawal as a gift to Russia and Turkey. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said "the decision to pull out of Syria was made despite overwhelming military advice against it."

Democrats also protested. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., said "an ill-informed and hasty withdrawal of troops will not only breathe new life into ISIS and other terrorist groups, but it will also cede America’s hard-fought gains in the region to Russia, Iran and Assad."

U.S. military leaders, including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, have spoken frequently of the need for U.S. troops to remain in the eastern part of Syria to help stabilize it and allow for peace negotiations to proceed.

There is not yet a timetable for the withdrawal of the approximately 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria.

In his tweet storm, Trump said: "Does the USA want to be the Policeman of the Middle East, getting NOTHING but spending precious lives and trillions of dollars protecting others who, in almost all cases, do not appreciate what we are doing?"

The president claimed that "Russia, Iran, Syria & many others are not happy about the U.S. leaving" because "now they will have to fight ISIS and others, who they hate, without us." If ISIS "hits" the U.S., he said, "they are doomed."

But officials in those countries Trump named applauded news of the U.S. withdrawal. 

"If the U.S. has decided to withdraw," Putin said, "that's good."

Published 9:16 AM EST Dec 20, 2018

Russia Prepares For Strikes On Saudi Arabia After Chemical Weapon Attack Fears In Yemen Grow, Orders Heavy Bombers To Stay In Iran

Russia Prepares For Strikes On Saudi Arabia After Chemical Weapon Attack Fears In Yemen Grow, Orders Heavy Bombers To Stay In Iran

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An astonishing new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today reveals that Russia is in the process of preparing for military strikes upon Saudi Arabia over its use of chemical and biological weapons in Yemen—that is due to the apocalyptic situation in Yemen about to get much worse after Jaysh al-Islam terrorists leaving Syria are now flowing there in massive numbers, and who in the past have used chemical weapons against Syrian Kurds—with the greatest fears of the General Staff being of a “super bug” just discovered in Yemen byMédecins Sans Frontières (MSF-Doctors Without Borders) scientists who are now warning has mutated into a new bacterium that poses a catastrophic risk to the entire world—and with Russia’s first action in this potential strike against Saudi Arabia being the ordering of its heavy bombers in Iran to stay there until further orders are received whileMoscow builds a US, UK and French coalition to begin these attacks.

According to this report, in the hours leading up to yesterday’s United Nation Security Council (UNSC) meeting where Russia put forth a resolution condemning the American-led “military masturbation” attack upon Syriaover unproven allegations of a chemical attack, President Putin pointed out to his Western counterparts that the logic they were using to justify their illegal attack could, in turn, be used by Russia to launch strikes against Saudi Arabia—with the West’s new standard for allowing any country to attack another being best articulated by France's UN Ambassador Francois Delattre who stated “the use of chemical weapons cannot be tolerated and must be deterred…that is essential”. 

Siding with Russia’s position that unproven chemical weapons use accusations failed to meet United Nations standards for one country launching an attack on another (Law of War), this report continues,were China and Bolivia—with Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Equatorial Guinea and Peru  abstaining from voting because they needed more information—but with the Western aligned nations of the US, UK,  France,  Netherlands, Sweden, Kuwait, Poland and Ivory Coast voting to rejectthe United Nations decades long justified reasons to start wars with their, instead, creating a new paradigm allowing any nation to attack another based on nothing more than the standard of “we believe it happened, so it’s true”.

Quickly adopting this new United Nations standard wanted by the Westof “we believe it happened, so it’s true” in order to legally justify one nation attacking another, this report details, was President Putin—and who, during today’s Security Council meeting, presented evidence thatSaudi Arabia has been supplying ISIL and Nusra Front terrorists with chemical weapons and chemical ingredients for building such weapons—with Yemeni Armed Forces Spokesman Brigadier General Sharaf Qaleb Luqman, also, having previously documented the extensive use of chemical and biological weapons by Saudi-led forces in Yemen's Ma'ribprovince.

Even more barbaric, this report notes, General Sharaf Qaleb Luqman, this past October (2017), stunningly revealed that the true cause ofYemen’s cholera outbreak that has become the worst in our world’s entire history—and who shockingly stated:

Poisonous gases were spread in the sky after the US, Saudi and Israeli fighter jets' direct airstrikes and they came down to the ground with the rain and penetrated and contaminated our underground waters

Therefore, it was a biological war as Saudi Arabia has already used all types of banned weapons against us.

While the West is manically cheering itself for it’s completely failed strike on Syria over unproven chemical weapon use allegations, that even the Jaysh al-Islam terrorists (who concocted this “fake news” story at the urging of their British secret services handlers) are now “calling a farce”, this report continues, completely being ignored by these Westernwarmongers is what Saudi Arabia is doing in Yemen—and whose description as a “war” by the US-led mainstream propaganda media is as grossly obscene as it is inaccurate, as it’s true propose is the total extermination of that nation’s millions of Islamic Shiite peoples in what has become one of the largest genocides in human history.

As the Western-sponsored genocide in Yemen has now grown to such evil and demonic depths that UN Humanitarian Chief Mark Lowcock, after recently visiting there, shockingly intoned that it “looks like the apocalypse” while warning that “”, this report details, Saudi Arabia’s total blockade on allowing food into Yemen has caused the starvation deaths of at least 150,000 in the last year alone—but whose real and verifiable deaths the American people aren’t allowed to know about in order to weigh against the supposed, but never found, 40 or so Syrianssupposedly killed by chemicals last week to determine which nation, in fact, they should be attacking for crimes against humanity. 

To how Saudi Arabia has been able to keep its massive genocidal crimes against humanity in Yemen hidden from the American people, this report explains, is due to their conducting one of the largest public relations campaigns of outright deception in US history costing a staggering $1.5 billion—and whose efforts have led to the buying off of the entire US mainstream propaganda media establishment, as well as top US politicians, led by Qorvis MSLGROUP and Booz Allen Hamilton—with the latter being a US management consultancy with long-established links to the “Deep State”– and who, also, was involved in the illegal SWIFT and PRISM mass surveillance programmes revealed byEdward Snowden. 

To what has placed Saudi Arabia’s genocidal actions in Yemen at the forefront of Russian military and political consideration as a vital national security threat to the entire Federation, this report grimly notes, are the grave reports being issued by Doctors Without Borders scientists about what is now happening in Yemen due to the Saudi’s unrestrained biological and chemical use—with these scientists warning that this conflict is taking on aspects of warfare once found only in history books, when the real toll of a military campaign is not the immediate damage from weapons, but the long-term and far greater impact of disease that spread in the chaos of armed conflict.

First noticed by US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, this report explains, the Americans, by 2009, realized that a never before known bacterium was circulating throughout the Middle East that no antibiotic could cure—known as a “superbug”—and that due to the Saudi’s use of biological and chemical weapons in Yemen, has now mutated into what is being called the “Acinetobacter baumannii”—and whose deadly virulence is so feared, even the US has labeled it as a “national security threat”.

For anyone believing that the already apocalyptic situation in Yemen, due to the Saudis being allowed by their Western backers to use chemical and biological weapons against that nations innocent peoples, couldn’t possibly get any worse, this report concludes, they’d be gravely mistaken—as the British-led and controlled Jaysh al-Islam terrorists fromSyria (who primarily attack civilian targets via kidnappings and bombings, and launches rockets into Israel) are now being deployed to Yemen viaSaudi Arabia—with the Saudi’s not-so-secret reason for doing so beingthese Jaysh al-Islam terrorists having freely admitted that they used chemical weapons in a mainly Kurdish populated area in the city ofAleppo, northern Syria in April 2016—and that under the new United Nations war standard just imposed on the world by the Americans, now makes Saudi Arabia a legitimate and legal “target for destruction” byRussian military forces—and is why President Putin has just instructed the General Staff to begin talks with the US, UK and France in order to build a coalition to strike these “chemical weapon using animals” as soon as possible—and that, of course, none of these Western powers could possibly object to, as to decide anything otherwise would expose them on the world stage as being liars and hypocrites. 

President Putin remains confidant that the US, UK and France will join Russian coalition to bomb Saudi Arabia until it quits using chemical and biological weapons in Yemen

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Thursday, April 20, 2017 Getting Trumped and Thumped in Syria

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Getting Trumped and Thumped in Syria

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As president Trump relishes telling the story, he was sitting with President Xi of China, who was enjoying a beautiful, huge slice of chocolate cake — the best chocolate cake you ever saw, which can be enjoyed only at Mar-A-Lago — when Trump decided it was time to launch 59 cruise missiles at the Assad government.

While President Trump was quick to attack Assad and equally enthusiastic to boast about how he pulled it off, it remains far from clear that Bashar Assad was even the person responsible for the chemicals that caused death and injury in Syria. Many have raised the question as to whether this is a false-flag operation by ISIS to try to draw the US in. They know full well that Trump’s neocon government is itching for an excuse to eliminate Bashar Assad anyway.

Whatever happened to Candidate Trump whose tweets about the war in Syria always scolded Obama and Hillary for even thinking about regime change or direct strikes against Assad?

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—David