Pence Calls for US Attacks against Syrian Regime
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Donald Trump's running mate Mike Pence on Tuesday said the United States should attack Syrian government targets if Russia continues to support its campaign to retake Aleppo.
"If Russia chooses to be involved and continue... in this barbaric attack on Aleppo, the United States of America should use military force to strike the targets of the Assad regime," the Republican vice presidential candidate said, referring to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a debate with his Democratic counterpart Tim Kaine.
The Syrian army announced a major Russian-backed military push nearly two weeks ago to capture the eastern rebel-held half of Aleppo in northern Syria, once the country's commercial hub.
Both candidates on Tuesday advocated the establishment of humanitarian safe zones in northern Syria.
Washington came close to launching strikes against Syrian regime targets in 2013 after evidence emerged the government had attacked civilians with sarin gas.
However, President Barack Obama agreed instead to a last-minute deal brokered by Russia to remove Syria's banned chemical weapons.
Both Pence and Kaine criticized Russia's support for the Syrian regime during their debate as well as Moscow's confrontation with Western countries, but clashed over earlier statements by both Trump and Pence praising Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"He's been a leader, far more than our president has been a leader," Trump said of Putin last month.
Kaine said that "Donald Trump, again and again, has praised Vladimir Putin, and it's clear that he has business dealings with Russian oligarchs who are related to Putin."
"Governor Pence made the odd claim, he said that arguably, Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President Obama," he added.
Pence denied the accusations as "absolutely inaccurate," blaming Russian military offensives on Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.
"Hillary Clinton said her number one priority was a reset with Russia," he said of Obama's policy to improve relations with Moscow during his first term. "That reset resulted in the invasion of Ukraine."
Washington announced late Monday that it would suspend negotiations with Russia over reinstating a nationwide truce in Syria, accusing Moscow of abetting Assad in a conflict that has killed more than 300,000 people since it erupted in March 2011.
05 October 2016, 10:44
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As if they werent already doing that, first through terrorist proxies whom they armed with all sorts of weapons (including TOWs and now MANPADS), and second, what that's not enough, by giving direct air support (cf the US strikes in Deir Ezzor that killed dozens of Syrian soldiers and allowed daesh to overtake their position)
05 October 2016, 10:46
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The only thing holding them back is the Russian presence and their S300 & S400 units, there is a thin line they know Russia wont allow them to cross.
06 October 2016, 05:06
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don't be discriminating, everyone will always find what mowaten says as 'gibberish'...
05 October 2016, 11:05
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Exactly mowaten! btw: the only thing that the warmonger has take into account that the bear gets so furious if molested repeatedly.
05 October 2016, 12:07
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when assad used chemical weapons and Obama issued his empty threats, there were no Russians holding them back. It is pure disjointed american policy on Syria. When they decide to do something, not you or your masters can do anything about it. So, stop boasting as if you are in the know.
05 October 2016, 12:36
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That's wrong justice, after the false flag attack in eastern Ghouta and the US beating the war drums, the Russians dispatched several warships in the Mediterranean between the Syrian coast and the US fleet.
There are even reports of two ballistic missiles being intercepted by Russia. (The US claimed at the time that these were part of a training exercise with israel, that just somehow took place at the very peak of the crisis & right above the place where the US and Russian fleets were facing off)
05 October 2016, 12:37
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There was also the (deliberately) leaked message from Putin to Assad giving him the green light to strike saudi oil fields with ballistic missiles should the US attack.
05 October 2016, 12:38
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"When they decide to do something", they just fail, more and more often than not.
05 October 2016, 13:56
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mowaten from iran remembers those instances specifically when the regime forces bombed a few workshops that were manufacturing chlorine gas soon to be released. At the point of impact, mowaten being there on the ground, recalls how the chlorine cannisters being prepared by the takfiris exploded and the gas was released and killed hundreds of women and children.
05 October 2016, 14:00
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@terr,
still talking about his fate!, this was in 2011 when LF, Mustaqbal and your country Israel, predicted that Assad would only last 3 months, it seems to me that you still stuck there, loser!
btw: you'd better to join Haaretz's forum to spew your stupidity there...
05 October 2016, 14:07
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@southern
but you claim on a daily basis that naharnet is a zio-saudi-takfiri news media. So, why are you spewing your "intelligence" here?
05 October 2016, 14:08
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yes eagleyawn, just as you recall being on the helicopters rolling out barrels with special civilian-seeking heads.
05 October 2016, 14:22
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dear @justin,
because it's useful for brainwashed like you!
btw: why you jump defending a half jew who considers Israel as his first country!?
05 October 2016, 14:38
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the irani watched a video game on his made in iran Xbox and is here reliving it with added hallucinations.
05 October 2016, 14:48
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.mowaten.
I'm not a big poster here but I have been using this site for over 36 years and recently I have been liking your posts, you're the only one informing these deluded ignorants. :)
