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Old 04-07-2017, 12:30 PM  
crockett
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Originally Posted by VRPdommy View Post
Never herd such a crock before.
Read the actual congressional report (predominately republicans) ! Not Fox Views.

Better focus on the matter at hand instead of who to blame it on.
The only folks I point fingers at are those that do all the finger pointing. And the guy responsible for fixing it now without excuse. There is no easy fix or it would have been done long before now. Most of those chemical stockpiles in Syria were stockpiles removed from Iraq before our invasion.
Russia tied to Iraq's missing arms - Washington Times
Someone did not deal with it then. At least Obama got a deal to have the known stockpiles verifiable destroyed in the case we find the need to do a ground invasion.

Kinda funny the Russians knew we were coming and none of their assets were on the ground. So you just blew up a empty airfield. Over 50 cruise missiles and 6 folks die...
Probably the cleaning folks. What a surprise !

The better play would have been to take out a few radar installs on the western side while you were at it so if we have to go back, it's a bit easier to surprise them with maned aircraft.

Simply symbolic is what we got.
It does send a message in any case. They may be hearing it louder in N. Korea than Syria.

I am only pleased that most of the upper but not top level advisers are not political appointees.
Russia knew it was coming because we used the back channel combat communications to tell them. They were not trying to blow up Russian aircraft. The attack was a warning, not meant to decommission the entire airport..
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