Breaking: Trump says he wanted to kill Syrian President Bashar Assad but Mattis stopped him before he could 'take him out'

[Victoria33]

Trump says he wanted to kill Syrian President Bashar Assad but Mattis stopped him before he could 'take him out'

Two years ago, President Donald Trump said killing Syria's authoritarian ruler was never contemplated, calling reports suggesting otherwise "fiction."

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Trump says he wanted to kill Syrian President Bashar Assad but Mattis stopped him before he could ‘take him out’​

Ryan Pickrell

President Donald Trump said on “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday that he wanted to kill Syrian President Bashar Assad after a deadly April 2017 chemical-weapons attack in the country.

“I would’ve rather taken him out. I had him all set,” Trump said, adding that the plan didn’t move forward because then-Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis objected.

Reports that Trump had ordered the killing of Assad only to be stopped by Mattis surfaced in late 2018, but at that time the president dismissed them as “fiction.”

I just heard about this and took a “random” story, so this is getting a lot of coverage.

Where there is a big buzz about Syria is on twitter. I’ve read all sides. It is interesting.

This would not be a decision for me to make. I do understand the extremely negative views on Assad.

A fairly big story. I don’t know if Trump should be telling us a lot of these kinds of things.

One interesting voice on Syria on twitter is Charles Lister, Middle East Institute. I think I will see what he is saying. I know of lots of folks who comment on these kinds of things, Mike Doran is another of the Hudson Institute; and then, you have a lot of others, some just regular Syrians, Kurds, etc. etc.

 

[RhodesianSon]

I’m glad Mattis stopped him, that would be been a foolish move. Assad is probably the only force for good when it comes to protecting Christians in Syria.

 

[WingedHussar]

The gassing was a lie, do not believe everything the media tells you.

 

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Assad Regime Named Number One Threat to Syria’s Christians After 120+ Churches Intentionally Attacked

As the death toll continues to climb in Syria's bloody civil war, a lesser-known casualty recently came to light in a new report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) – churches and Christian places of worship.

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Assad Regime Named Number One Threat to Syria’s Christians After 120+ Churches Intentionally Attacked​

Assad has collaborated with ISIS. Etc. etc. Said to kill Americans, collaborated with al Qaeda:

Revealed: Assad Buys Oil From ISIS

Putin claims Turkey is smuggling the terror group’s oil, but the awkward truth is his ally Assad buys more—from ISIS’s own public-private partnership.

www.thedailybeast.com

How Assad Staged al Qaeda Bombings

The Syrian regime’s collusion with the terrorists it says it is fighting goes back a decade, and it wasn’t above killing its own people to make a point.

www.thedailybeast.com

Likewise, beware of Russian/Iranian/Hezbollah propaganda.

The country is destroyed, Russia will not fund construction of a totally destroyed country, others will not invest. So, be happy with Assad, nothing will happen but more trouble.

That doesn’t mean I’m for a shooting war with Syria; but it means, we should see this guy for what he’s done and caused most of the refugee crisis.