Meanwhile in Iraq & Syria

[DBTrek]

Did "Russia the Stronk" kick our cowardly asses yet?
No?

What have they done so far, somebody update me.

Oh . . . wait . . . NOTHING?

Well, there's a shocker, eh? Who could've predicted.

[TheReal_ND]

SAA accuses coaltion of blowing up IS munitions containing gas killing hundreds of civilians in the process
https://russian.rt.com/world/news/37840 ... r-sklad-ig
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-midea ... SKBN17F18D

The Syrian army said an air strike late on Wednesday by the U.S.-led coalition hit poison gas supplies belonging to Islamic State, releasing a toxic substance that killed "hundreds", but the coalition denied carrying out raids in the area.

A statement by the army, flashed on Thursday by Syrian state TV, said the incident in the eastern Deir al-Zor province proved that Islamic State and al Qaeda-linked militants "possess chemical weapons"

[TheReal_ND]

NYT: AMERICA SHOULD PARTNER WITH ISIS TO DEFEAT ASSAD
by Thomas Friedman, Friedman is Jewish.[4] He attended Hebrew school five days a week until his Bar Mitzvah,[5] then St. Louis Park High School, where he wrote articles for his school's newspaper.[6] He became enamored with Israel after a visit there in December 1968, and he spent all three of his high school summers living on Kibbutz HaHotrim, near Haifa.[7] He has characterized his high school years as "one big celebration of Israel's victory in the Six-Day War."[7]

http://theduran.com/nyt-just-comes-out- ... row-assad/

[Martin Hash]

Don't need any more proof of who's behind this Syria insanity than that.

[TheReal_ND]

OPCW Response to the 4 April 2017 Incident

"to establish facts surrounding allegations of the use of toxic chemicals, reportedly chlorine, for hostile purposes in the Syrian Arab Republic”"

https://www.opcw.org/news/article/media ... pril-2017/

UK ambassador to OPCW is set in his position
this is gonna be a very transparent and conclusive investigation

[BjornP]

Assad is fighting the Islamists. The people committing the genocide are the Islamists. If you topple Assad, the Islamists win, and the remaining Christians are exterminated in Syria.

You people better understand what you are supporting ahead of time. That genocide will be on you otherwise.

Who are "Islamists"? Hezbollah isn't "Islamist", I guess? How about Iranian government forces? They not Islamist? Is FSA "Islamist"? Assad has, with Russian, Hezbollah and Iranian help been fighting and bombing the FSA forces for months. The FSA have been fighting a two-front war against both ISIS and Assad since the start of the civil war. Assad and Russia didn't start out by dropping bombs on ISIS, StA, back when the Russians started to arrive in force. They pointed their guns first at the Western-backed rebels. They didn't even need to drop anything on ISIS, because the FSA and the Kurds were keeping them at bay.

No matter how many times you keep repeating the lie that the only two sides in the Syrian conflict supposedly are Assad vs. ISIS/similar jihadists, anyone who has followed the conflict to even a marginal extent still knows that that narrative is bullshit. The Syrian Kurds do not support Assad, and the Syrian Kurds have allied themselves with Christian militias who also want Assad gone. They're not fighting him now, but the Syrian Kurds have had minor skirmishes with Assad regime forces on and off in the past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian ... s_in_Syria

There are pro-Assad Christian militias, but they're not the largest ones. Not as if he's the champion of Syrian Christians, anyway,...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_Union_Party (click the one for Syria, something wrong with the link to the Syrian one)

Seriously, StA, look up "Syriac Military Council" on YouTube. The Syriac Christians are allied with this group:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Democratic_Forces

Would you consider those people "Islamists" and identical to ISIS, too, StA?

[Speaker to Animals]

Just stop.

The rebels are primarily ISIS and AL Nusra. You have such a hard on for Christian genocide you don't realize how stupid you sound when you pretend like the rebels are the good guys.

[BjornP]

Did "Russia the Stronk" kick our cowardly asses yet?
No?

What have they done so far, somebody update me.

Oh . . . wait . . . NOTHING?

Well, there's a shocker, eh? Who could've predicted.

Accuses the US of supporting terrorists:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09 ... syria-rif/

Accuses the US of conducting an "illegal war":

http://thehill.com/policy/international ... k-on-syria

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/ru ... 09471.html

..I'm sure crippling sanctions are next.

[Martin Hash]

Wait, didn't I just see a NYT link of Friedman saying the U.S. should join forces with ISIS!? WTF is anyone talking about anything else? That's fuckin' Yuge!

[de officiis]

Asinine, you mean.