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Cattledog

(6,670 posts)
Sat Apr 14, 2018, 12:41 PM Apr 2018

Trump's message to Assad:

You can kill as many people as you want, in any way you want —except with chemicals.

498,000 have been killed in Syria. 1,500 of those were by chemical attacks.

Just something to think about.

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Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts)
2. As long as you blow their body parts across a few city blocks we're cool with it, and btw ...
Sat Apr 14, 2018, 12:48 PM
Apr 2018

Damascus could really use a Trump Tower and golf course ... Call me.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
4. About 100,000 of those killed have been Assad's forces
Sat Apr 14, 2018, 12:50 PM
Apr 2018

And about 25,000 of those killed have been ISIS fighters.

Using chemical weapons against civilians should always been considered a red line - as President Obama himself has said.

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