Pompeo: Obama ‘Invited’ the Russians – Pretending to be Chemical Weapons Inspectors – Into Syria

[OldBrownsFan]

Pompeo: Obama ‘Invited’ the Russians – Pretending to be Chemical Weapons Inspectors – Into Syria

“I remember who invited the Russians into Syria: It was President Barack Obama,” he said. “I mean, he didn’t just let them come in. He invited them in. He had them come in and pretend to be chemical weapons inspectors. He, he actively worked with the Russian leadership, said ‘no, come on in, come on into Syria.’”

Pompeo was later asked whether President Trump’s withdrawal of troops from northeastern Syria – ahead of a Turkish military offensive against Syrian Kurdish fighters allied to the U.S. – had “undercut U.S. credibility.”

After describing the premise as “insane,” he asserted that “the word of the United States is much more respected today than it was just two-and-a-half years ago.”

Pompeo again pointed back to Obama’s policy in Syria, specifically what became known as the “red line” episode, contrasting it with Trump’s decision to punish the regime for chemical weapons use.

“The previous administration said, ‘boy, if you use chemical weapons, that’s going to be bad,’ and the president drew a red line,” Pompeo recalled. “President Obama drew a red line. He then duly ignored it.”

“This president [Trump] said, ‘if you use chemical weapons, I’m going to take action.’ And we fired Tomahawk missiles in to take down that threat, to let them know that the cost – the cost of violating, this massive violation of human dignity, these massive human rights violations by using chemical weapons – that there would be a cost imposed for that.”

(After chemical weapons attacks blamed by the U.S. on Bashar Assad’s regime, Trump twice ordered limited cruise missile strikes on regime targets, in April 2017 and April 2018.)

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/pompeo-obama-invited-russians-pretending-be-chemical-weapons

[TexasAg1969]

Obama was a Chicago alderman and a horrible foreign policy guy. But two wrongs still do not make a right. Trump's recent move was equally bad and can't be painted over into some kind of victory no matter how he tries to con you. And he is trying to con you into thinking he had a real great and fabulous "plan" which has worked beautifully. Doesn't this 💩 look so much better with this 💋 on it 🐷?   LOLOLOLOL!😂

[OldBrownsFan]

22 minutes ago, TexasAg1969 said:

Obama was a Chicago alderman and a horrible foreign policy guy. But two wrongs still do not make a right. Trump's recent move was equally bad and can't be painted over into some kind of victory no matter how he tries to con you. And he is trying to con you into thinking he had a real great and fabulous "plan" which has worked beautifully. Doesn't this 💩 look so much better with this 💋 on it 🐷?   LOLOLOLOL!😂

I agree in principal with what Trump is doing. We have gotten involved in too many wars around the world and we cannot afford to be the world's policeman. Most other nations will gladly let that burden rest on our shoulders while they sit it out on the sidelines. If we needed to have a buffer zone in Syria then it should have been a multi national force and not just the United States. The fact is having 50 soldiers was not a real deterrent and we were putting them in some real harm's way. My only fault with Trump on pulling the 50 soldiers out of Syria was I thought he did it too abruptly. 

[calfoxwc]

I agree with what Pres Trump is doing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-led_intervention_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War

Coalition arming and training of the Syrian opposition

Main article: Syrian Train and Equip Program

By January 2015, the United States was set to send 400 troops and hundreds of support staff to countries neighboring Syria in order to train 5,000 opposition soldiers a year for the next three years.^[187] The countries taking part in the train-and-equip program were to include Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.^[188] The groups that were expected to be armed and trained by the U.S. government included fighters from the Free Syrian Army.^[189] In October 2014, the Turkish government agreed to help train and equip some moderate Syrian rebels in Turkey.^[190]The Pentagon confirmed that it had selected 1,200 Syrian opposition members to begin training in March 2015, with 3,000 to complete training by the end of 2015.^[188]

The successful experience in Kobanî had informed U.S. policy in regard to arming Syrian opposition groups other than the Kurdish YPG, with plans to give other groups technicals equipped with radio and GPS equipment to call in airstrikes.^[165]John R. Allen, President Obama's envoy to the international coalition against ISIL, stated "It is clearly part of our plan, that not only we will train them, and we will equip them with the latest weapons systems, but we will also protect them when the time comes".^[191] In March 2015, the United Kingdom announced that it was sending around 75 military instructors to train Syrian opposition forces.^[192][193] The train-and-equip program started on 9 May 2015.^[194] On 25 May, Turkey and the U.S. agreed "in principle" on the necessity to support these forces with air support.^[195]

However, only about 200 rebel fighters actually began training, the majority of whom left after being required to agree to fight only against ISIL and not the Assad government.^[196] By mid-2015, only a group of 54 such fighters (Division 30) had been deployed – which was quickly routed in an ambush by al-Nusra^[197] – and a further 100 had been thus far finished training in Jordan.^[198] In September 2015, it was reported that a further 100-120 were being trained in a second wave,^[199] with 75 more Division 30 fighters reported to have re-entered Syria at the end of the month; they were immediately attacked by al-Nusra.^[200]

Jane's Defence Weekly reported that in December 2015 the U.S. shipped 994 tonnes of weapons and ammunition (including packaging and container weight), generally of Soviet-type equipment from Eastern Europe, to Syrian rebel groups under the ongoing CIA Timber Sycamore operation. A detailed list of weapon types and shipment weights had been obtained from the U.S. government's Federal Business Opportunities website.^[201][202] As of July 2016, extensive arms shipments were continuing.^{[203][204][205]}

It was reported in July 2017 that the Donald Trump administration decided to "phase-out" the CIA program to equip and train anti-government rebel groups.^{[206][207][208]}

[calfoxwc]

not worth losing one American soldier with it all. Obamao spent years dwindling away the opportunity to

stop all the garbage.

[DieHardBrownsFan]

Trump is a fucking idiot.

[calfoxwc]

12 minutes ago, DieHardBrownsFan said:

Trump is a fucking idiot.