Trump claims no wars started under him: what about the war on democracy?

[applegrove]

The one in the US?

[SunSeeker]

1. What about Syria?

In April 2017, the US carried its first direct military action against Assad’s forces, launching 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian air force base.

[applegrove]

2. Didn't they get into Syria by Obama to root out ISIS?

[SunSeeker]

4. What "they" are you referring to? The GOP ripped Obama for letting Assad cross a red line.

Obama did not engage Assad with US military action.

[applegrove]

5. Right but he went after ISIS In Syria. So it was an adjunct war he got

involved in in Syria.

[SunSeeker]

7. Obama did not bomb Assad. Trump did that.

And the "war on ISIS" started before Obama took office. Starting in 2007, under Bush, the U.S. military began a surge of an additional 30,000 troops into Iraq—adding to 130,000 already deployed—the surge overlapped with the so-called “Awakening” among Iraq’s Sunni tribes. They turned against the jihadi movement and started working with the U.S. military to ​contain ISIS.

I am not aware of any war that Obama started.

[applegrove]

8. The Saudis were desperate for Obama to get involved with the fight against ISIS. I guess

it wasn't technically a war.

[Cha]

9. That's what I thought of too..

Of course the Fascist that got into our WH LIES his ugly head off about Everything!

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[canetoad]

3. That was a stealth war applegrove

Dunno what would have happened if he'd declared it.

[applegrove]

6. Yes. No fly zone.