Democratic lawmaker nails why we shouldn't believe Trump's claims about why he's bombing Syria

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Democratic lawmaker nails why we shouldn't believe Trump's claims about why he's bombing Syria
By Laura Clawson
Thursday Apr 06, 2017 · 11:48 PM EST


There are so many problems with Donald Trump’s sudden decision to launch airstrikes on Syria. But Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton gets right to the heart of how dishonest Trump’s claimed outrage over the gassing of Syrians is:

If you don’t care enough about people to welcome them in peace, no one should believe your claim to care enough about them to drop bombs.

Link to tweet

[spanone]

1. he just found out that syrians have babies.

[LeftInTX]

27. Babies lives matter only if they stay in Syria

[erronis]

35. Maybe restrict Planned Parenthood to Muslims?

Or other non-rich-white-pseudo-xians?

[Cha]

2. Keep driving that point Rep Moulton.. it's excellent.

trump will tell Russia and Syria and not the US that he's going to bomb but he won't let Syrian Children find Refuge.

And, he's blaming President Obama.

He has no credibility whatsoever.

[brer cat]

11. Spot on, Cha. nt

[iluvtennis]

12. +++ agree

[ehrnst]

36. +1000. (nt)

[NoMoreRepugs]

3. Hope someone frames that statement into a question for Spicey...

[hamsterjill]

10. Won't matter.

It will be the usual absurdity for an answer (i.e., "I'll look in to it&quot . Then three days later it will be "I didn't promise you an answer; I just said I'd look into it".

Can anyone believe this shit from a press secretary???!!!

[sprinkleeninow]

33. It's believable from these frauds. eom

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. For tRump & deplorable Republicons, killing brown people easier than housing & feeding them. . . nt

[lark]

18. I'd be willing to be he enjoyed it.

He likes hurting brown people. Although, since Syria strongly appears to have been forewarned by Russia, there probably weren't many deaths and no loss of planes. This is a military strike that wasn't, just more fakery. Since when does anyone announce to the enemys' BFF that we are initiating military action? Never is the answer, as it's just not done. The stupidity and sneaky treachery of this administration is just astounding. He wasted millions of dollars worth of missiles just to try to appear as if he's not taking orders from Russia. So Russia and Syria duly makes outraged noises, even though no real damage is done, just for pretense sake.

[FakeNoose]

28. No see it's this way

Housing and feeding the Syrian refugees is no problem.

The problem comes in where they become citizens and vote the wrong way.
Can't let that happen.

[BSdetect]

5. I see no way to end this insanity and the wait till the 2018 election is not enough

[bigtree]

6. k&r

[sheshe2]

7. K&R

[ailsagirl]

8. I will never trust a word that clod utters

[L. Coyote]

9. PLUS #TrumpRussia is heating up to a boil and Trump & Pals are getting scalded.

Link to tweet

[They_Live]

13. And what about the 200 civilians that USA

killed just the other week? 45 doesn't mention at all.

[DemoTex]

14. Not to mention the $41,600,000 cost ..

50 Tomahawk missiles @ $832,000/each = $41,600,000

And that is the cost of the missile alone. Lots of overhead involved. Lots.

[Sunlei]

17. those missiles cost $832,000 each!?

[anneboleyn]

22. Yes they do. I read that they are over a million each actually.

[DemoTex]

34. I went with the most conservative estimate.

But with all the support required (overhead), a Tomahawk's off-the-shelf price probably doubles by the time it is launched.

[IronLionZion]

29. This site claims they are $1.6 million each

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2017/04/06/

Just think, we almost elected socialism to waste our tax dollars on health care, education, and infrastructure. Whew. Dodged a bullet there.

Defense Comptroller Report:
http://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/documents/defbudget/fy2015/fy2015_Weapons.pdf#page=65

[Sunlei]

15. I'd like to know where all 59 of missles struck, reports said only about 20 hit tiny airport

where did about 35 go?

[Idoru]

16. We need to keep repeating this

This fact, combined with the fact that the Syrians and Russians were informed of the attack before Congress was, can't be stated enough. It's all smoke and mirrors.

[lark]

19. Yep, we allk need to keep repeating this loud and repeatedly!

War as fakery was practiced on Thurs. It's just a show to try to throw off and stall further the Russia investigation. He must be terrified of that, that he would go to these lengths. If he thinks he'll get a war president bump, well, he shouldn't have told Russia and so Syria in advance. He really thinks Americans are stupid and that the information won't get out or they won't believe it. That's why he constantly dogs the media, so people don't believe them when they tell them all his lies and distortions. Only thing, people believe the media way more than him, but I bet he doesn't believe that either since he thinks he's so smart (Not).

[Marthe48]

20. trump bombs Syria to show russia doesn't own him

putin told him to bomb syria so trump can "prove" he's his own man. Ha.

Headlines shouting that trump warned russia when they were bombing. More likely, putin gave trump a time and date. And Syria is a fallen pawn to putin and trump's relentless quest for all power all the time.

Already horrible, it will get worse. trump just discovered how f'n easy it is to order bombs. In less than a week, he's moved from honking a truck horn to launching Tomahawks.

[anneboleyn]

23. And Tillerson reports to Putin next week. Literally he visits Russia next week.

[Fast Walker 52]

25. yep... I can only imagine the boner this gave him and how much he wants to do it again

[Marthe48]

26. OMG-I thought the same thing

N.Koreans better prepare for the next hit. If putin wants it. We all better.

[keithbvadu2]

21. Trump wags the dog to distract from his selling America to Russia

Trump only pretends to care about civilian casualties.

[Fast Walker 52]

24. NAILED IT... many others have amde similar remarks but this really put it just right

[Solly Mack]

30. Exactly

[NastyRiffraff]

31. Dump is a liar and a hypocrite

And he's putting the entire world in danger with his recklessness. No wonder Putin wanted Dump in the WH. He and Assad would never have dared this shit if Hillary had been president.

[RainCaster]

40. Bigly!

We must never forget how the GOP had stolen our rights.
They colluded with Russia to steal our vote.
They played games with Obama and his choice for SCOTUS.
We must all work to eliminate the GOP as a sad point in our countries history.

[rogue emissary]

32. K & R

Every Democrat needs to be echoing this statement.

[Amimnoch]

37. To me simple logic is enough of a case.

Putin has been President of Russia since 1999.

Can anyone name a single time where Putin was threatened with ANY kind of military action against him, and didn't go all out in resisting it?

We're to believe that #45 tells Putin that he's going to bomb an air base with Russian equipment, and Russian troops installed, and the famously magnanimous Putin just tells the troops to move the Russian equipment and themselves off of the base????

Then add to that, the peaceful Putin decides not to deploy.. at all.. the Russian countermeasures they have in place.. You know.. the S-400 countermeasures that are specifically made to target and down Tomahawk missiles.. When he knew a full day ahead of time those missiles were incoming?? What? We're supposed to believe the Russians were just being generous??

Add to THAT, the extremely precise targeting capability of the Tomahawks we fired, and the numbers we fired, yet the air strip is still fully operational??? What? The CIC's made a miscalculations.. more than 50 times???

REALLY??? This is the narrative we're supposed to just swallow?

There needs to be a fucking investigation NOW to find out exactly what the orders given were? I'll eat my socks if they were ordered to destroy the air field and just missed. I'm betting our military was ordered to inflict minimum damage and leave that airfield intact.

[harun]

41. Doesn't smell right, Trump supporters too dumb to notice.

[tomp]

43. agree.

the gullible american people are trained to see any american military action as righteous, and to "get behind the president."

the number of "coincidences" surrounding this "show of force" are incredible, literally.

[Kablooie]

38. The other reason is that he is incapable of telling the truth.

If he says it's so, it's not.

[KT2000]

39. to say nothing of the EOs

that will not ban a pesticide known to cause brain damage in children and the gutting of the EPA - gutting of public health.

[Kath2]

42. Right on.

"If you don’t care enough about people to welcome them in peace, no one should believe your claim to care enough about them to drop bombs."