I read a comment made by your illegitimate president and was reminded of a statement made on an aircraft carrier in 2003. George W. Bush made a melodramatic entrance by arriving on the carrier in a Navy fighter jet. As he stepped to a microphone, a large banner hung behind him declaring “mission accomplished.” The war raged on for 10 more years, and peace has not been achieved in the area to this day.

After approximately 120 Cruise missiles were launched inside of Syria yesterday near Damascus, Trump declared “mission accomplished.” The success of the attacks was limited and did little more damage than last year’s strikes on a Syrian air base. Trump labeled them ‘precision attacks,’ and that they were. They were aimed at targets which did not include warehouses filled with nerve gas, and carefully avoided Russian installations.

“If this is it, Assad should be relieved,” tweeted Randa Slim, an analyst at the Middle East Institute.

Okay, let’s get to the truth; the facts have little or nothing to do with retaliation for a chemical strike on Syrian men, women, and children. Trump’s first goal was to divert attention away from the investigation of himself and his personal attorney, Michael Cohen. Secondly, he wanted to appease his supporters, knowing that they are gullible enough to believe that he actually did something ‘presidential.’

This is extremely important. Many analysts are making an assertion that the chemical attacks were a planned effort to allow Trump to create a diversion from his many problems by attacking low priority targets and increase his approval ratings. Assad is winning the war, and the chemical attacks were unnecessary.

Here’s another assumption based on past actions from your illegitimate president. The targets inside Syria were chosen by Vladimir Putin who obviously consulted with Assad. Putin directed Trump to targets which would cause the least damage to Assad’s plans for genocide. Nothing will change in Syria.

Experts estimate that the weapons alone cost American taxpayers $105 million. They believe that this was a very expensive operation which resulted in very limited damage, and will have zero effect on Putin and Assad’s future plans for the annihilation of Assad’s enemies who are citizens of his own nation.

Finally; Trump was right. “Mission accomplished” was the correct response. He did not upset Putin or Putin’s plans for continued involvement in the Syrian civil war.

You can fool Trump’s supporters but you can’t fool those of us who read the facts and have followed Trump’s deplorable life. He is all smoke and mirrors; he has no substance. But he is a fairly capable con man.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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