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Washington (CNN)Republican Sen. John McCain said Sunday that President Donald Trump's comments that the US military would leave Syria "very soon" had emboldened Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, resulting in the reported chemical weapons attack Saturday that killed dozens of the country's civilians.
"President Trump last week signaled to the world that the United States would prematurely withdraw from Syria," the Arizona senator said in a statement. "Bashar Assad and his Russian and Iranian backers have heard him, and emboldened by American inaction, Assad has reportedly launched another chemical attack against innocent men, women and children, this time in Douma."
The statement from the hawkish chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee came hours after Trump tweeted that there would be a "big price to pay" for an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria. Trump's tweets pinned blame for the situation there on Russian President Vladimir Putin's support for Assad and former US President Barack Obama's past policy in the war-torn nation.
This smells for all the world like a John McCain/Deep State/International Military Industrial Complex set-up of a
very dangerous trap for President Trump. An International False Flag incident by McCain and his Al Qaeda buddies
McCain's Brigade rebels gassed their own people to entrap Trump.
Trump says he wants to get out of Syria. Assad responds by gassing some civilians? Call me a skeptic….
Nowadays You can always count on the Old Songbird to backstab you when the chips are down.