Ron Paul has some very serious questions about Trump's weekend attack on Syria.. Ron Paul has some very serious questions about Trump's weekend attack on Syria.. Ron Paul has some very serious questions about Trump's weekend attack on Syria..
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Trump's Syria Misstep
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| Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report, Trump's Disastrous Syria Attack. | |
| Over the weekend, President Trump celebrated firing more than 100 missiles into Syria by tweeting, mission accomplished. | |
| They say if you cannot learn from history, you are condemned to repeat it. | |
| So I guess we are repeating it. | |
| We all remember that mission accomplished was the banner behind then President Bush as he gloated aboard a U.S. Navy ship that the war in Iraq had been won. | |
| After his victory, however, some 4,000 U.S. military personnel were killed. | |
| Perhaps a million Iraqis were killed. | |
| And the country's infrastructure and social fabric were so badly destroyed that they probably can never be repaired. | |
| Actually, there is much about the U.S. attack on Syria that reminds us of Iraq. | |
| With Iraq, the U.S. moved in to start bombing before international inspectors had completed their mission to verify whether or not Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. | |
| Had they been allowed to complete their mission and verify that, he did not imagine the suffering, death, and destruction that could have been avoided. | |
| In Syria, the U.S. decided to start bombing before the international inspectors were even allowed to start checking claims that Assad gassed his own people in Douma. | |
| Why? | |
| What was the rush? | |
| Was Washington afraid they might not find Assad guilty? | |
| Who really benefits from U.S. attacks on the Syrian government? | |
| There were reports that ISIS began making moves immediately after the airstrikes. | |
| Do we really want to be al-Qaeda and ISIS's air force? | |
| Is that going to keep us safe? | |
| Remember when al-Qaeda was actually considered our enemy, not an ally in overthrowing the last secular government in the Middle East. | |
| Will Syria's Christians be better off after the recent U.S. attack? | |
| Just over a week ago, Christians celebrated Easter in Aleppo for the first time in years. | |
| What changed? | |
| The Syrian army kicked out al-Qaeda, which had been occupying the eastern part of the city. | |
| So no, Christians will be much worse off if our modern dictators take control of Syria. | |
| If Syria really had sarin and other chemical weapon factories, does it make sense for the U.S. to bomb the buildings and risk killing thousands by widely dispersing the poisons? | |
| Does it make sense to risk killing Syrian civilians with chemical weapons in retaliation for allegations that the Syrian government killed civilians with chemical weapons? | |
| No, it seems more likely the phony mobile weapons of mass destruction labs we were told that Saddam Hussein had constructed. | |
| If the U.S. knew Syria was manufacturing chemical weapons in the buildings they bomb, why not notify the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons? | |
| The OPCW had certified the very buildings the U.S. bombed as chemical weapons free not that long ago. | |
| Why not just call them up and ask them to check it out? | |
| After all, they were just arriving in the country as the U.S. started bombing. | |
| There are many more questions about President Trump's terrible decision to again make war on Syria. | |
| For example, where is Congress? | |
| It was disgraceful to see Speaker Paul Ryan telling the president he needs no congressional authorization to attack Syria. | |
| All members of Congress take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, and the Constitution says that only Congress can declare war. | |
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Oath Betrayed
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| Does that oath mean nothing these days? | |
| President Trump will come to regret the day he let the neocons take over his foreign policy. | |
| Their track record is abysmal. | |
| His attacks on Syria was clearly illegal, and should his party lose the House in November, he may find his new fair-weathered friends in the Democratic Party quickly turning foul. | |
| Thanks for listening. | |