[Sdalliance] Fwd: Fw: Protest: Stop Trump’s War against Syria -- 5:00 p.m. Friday

[Ryan Stray]

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Protest: Stop the War on Syria -- 5 PM Friday @ Federal Building (880 Front
St)
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The Trump administration is waging a new U.S. war of aggression in the
Middle East. The target this time is Syria. More than 70 U.S. cruise
missiles hit Syria tonight.
*The ANSWER Coalition is calling on people and organizations to mobilize
nationally coordinated protests Friday at 5:00 p.m. and throughout the
weekend to demand an end to the U.S. war against Syria. These protests will
be taking place in cities across the country, including Washington, D.C.,
at the White House.*
It is noteworthy that in the hours before Trump ordered military strikes on
Syria, Hillary Clinton emerged back into the public spotlight to demand
that Trump carry out military strikes against Syria. The Trump-led
Republican Party and the Democrats will now reunite on the basis of a new
U.S. war in the Middle East.
Again, following a tried and true script, U.S. imperialist military actions
against an independent, sovereign Middle Eastern government takes place
under the pretext of protecting civilians from weapons of mass destruction.
The hypocrisy of the war-mongering politicians and media is astounding. The
United States has been bombing Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere daily, killing
hundreds of civilians in Mosul, Iraq in one attack alone. Scores of
families, including their children, were murdered by American bombs. The
U.S. media has been virtually silent about this crime.
In March, the Pentagon carried out 70 bombings of Yemen, more than in all
of 2016, and continues to provide the bombs and bombers for the genocidal
Saudi-led war on that country.
Now, the U.S. government is bombing the secular government of Bashar
al-Assad at the moment that the Syrian national army was defeating
al-Qaeda, the so-called Islamic State and other terrorist armed
organizations. The Syrian government denies using chemical weapons. *Instead
of bombing first and asking questions later, shouldn't there be an
objective investigation into the facts?*
Again, the U.S. government describes its war motives as humanitarian.
Again, the U.S. government asserts that the targeted government possesses
and has used weapons of mass destruction as the rationale for another
bombing campaign.
At this point, every person in the United States should assume that the
U.S. government, the Pentagon, and the CIA are lying when they seek to
justify this new military aggression.
Let us not forget that the U.S. government insisted that it was required to
go to war in Iraq to prevent the government of Saddam Hussein from using
weapons of mass destruction. No such weapons existed in 2003. Hundreds of
thousands of Iraqis died, tens of thousands of American troops suffered
life-changing injuries or were killed, and the country of Iraq was
fragmented, allowing ISIS to come into existence.
Trump’s military strikes against Syria pose a grave danger of escalating
into a regional or even global confrontation. The Syrian government, in its
battle against al-Qaeda, ISIS and other armed groups, has the support of
Russia and Iran.
The ANSWER Coalition is calling on people and organizations to mobilize
nationally coordinated protests Friday at 5:00 p.m. and throughout the
weekend to demand an end to the U.S. war against Syria. These protests will
be taking place in cities across the country, including Washington, D.C.,
at the White House.
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