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Thankful Syria didn't bomb the USA (Original Post) SHRED Apr 2018 OP
Wow! Maraya1969 Apr 2018 #1
Amber Zirkelbach OF Wooster makes a good point. NT Rorey Apr 2018 #2
Wooster is a town in Ohio oberliner Apr 2018 #3
LOL, thanks. I'll fix it. Rorey Apr 2018 #4
No problem - know some folks who went to College of Wooster oberliner Apr 2018 #5
Well, Oberliners and Woosterers (lol) are obviously pretty smart Rorey Apr 2018 #7
Thank you, Amber onethatcares Apr 2018 #6
Mic fucking drop. nt Lucky Luciano Apr 2018 #8
This was a year ago. harley_weewax Apr 2018 #9
Interesting SHRED Apr 2018 #10
Syria is not Flint Michigan. CentralMass Apr 2018 #11
 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
5. No problem - know some folks who went to College of Wooster
Sat Apr 14, 2018, 06:32 PM
Apr 2018

Not far from where I went to college - Oberlin.

Rorey

(8,445 posts)
7. Well, Oberliners and Woosterers (lol) are obviously pretty smart
Sat Apr 14, 2018, 06:37 PM
Apr 2018

I won't mention where I went to university so I don't embarrass them.

onethatcares

(16,185 posts)
6. Thank you, Amber
Sat Apr 14, 2018, 06:36 PM
Apr 2018

for stating the obvious.

What a blind eye we have when it comes to our treatment of the underclass.

harley_weewax

(10 posts)
9. This was a year ago.
Sat Apr 14, 2018, 08:49 PM
Apr 2018

I live in Wooster and checked our local paper's archives. The article is dated 4/15/2017. It was one of four responses to a reporter asking random people about the attack. Wooster and Wayne County are very right wing, and I am surprised that two of the four actually opposed the bombing. The other one who opposed it was a student from the College of Wooster.

CentralMass

(15,265 posts)
11. Syria is not Flint Michigan.
Sat Apr 14, 2018, 09:12 PM
Apr 2018
https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27/world/meast/syria-civil-war-fast-facts/index.html?no-st=9999999999
Syrian Civil War Fast Facts
"June 13, 2013 - US President Barack Obama says that Syria has crossed a "red line" with its use of chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin gas, against rebels. His administration indicates that it will be stepping up its support of the rebels, who have been calling for the United States and others to provide arms needed to battle Assad's forces."

"August 22, 2013 - The UN and the United States call for an immediate investigation of Syrian activists' claims that the Assad government used chemical weapons in an attack on civilians on August 21. Anti-regime activist groups in Syria say more than 1,300 people were killed in the attack outside Damascus, many of them women and children. Video footage and witness reports appear to bolster claims that chemical weapons were used.

August 24, 2013 - Medical charity Doctors Without Borders announces that three hospitals near Damascus treated more than 3,000 patients suffering "neurotoxic symptoms" on August 21. Reportedly, 355 of the patients died.

August 26, 2013 - UN inspectors reach the site of a reported chemical attack in Moadamiyet al-Sham, near Damascus. En route to the site, the team's convoy is hit by sniper fire. No one is injured.

August 29, 2013 - The UK's Parliament votes against any military action in Syria.

August 30, 2013 - US Secretary of State John Kerry says that US intelligence information has found that 1,429 people were killed in last week's chemical weapons attack in Syria, including at least 426 children.

August 31, 2013 - US President Obama gives a speech asking Congress to authorize military action against"

September 16, 2013 - The UN releases a report from chemical weapons inspectors who investigated the August 21 incident. Inspectors say there is "clear and convincing evidence" that sarin was used.

"April 4, 2017 - Dozens of civilians are reportedly killed in a suspected chemical attack in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun. The Russian Defense Ministry claims that gas was released when Syrian forces bombed a chemical munitions depot operated by terrorists. Activists, however, say that Syrians carried out a targeted chemical attack.

April 6, 2017 - The United States launches a military strike on a Syrian government airbase in response to the chemical weapon attack on civilians. On US President Donald Trump's orders, US warships launch 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the airbase which was home to the warplanes that carried out the chemical attacks."

"October 26, 2017 - A joint report from the UN and international chemical weapons inspectors finds that the Assad regime was responsible for the April 2017 sarin attack that killed more than 80 people. Syria has repeatedly denied it had anything to do with the attack and also denies it has any chemical weapons."

"April 7, 2018 - Helicopters drop barrel bombs filled with toxic gas on the last rebel-held town in Eastern Ghouta, activist groups say. The World Health Organization later says that as many as 500 people may have been affected by the attack.

April 13, 2018 - The United States, France and UK launch airstrikes on Syria in response to the chemical weapons attack in Eastern Ghouta a week earlier"
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