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Yeah, no, no, no, no, I can't sing. I can't. It's not a joyful day. No, cause of this. Because of this.

I ordered a targeted military strike. The toughest direct U.S. action yet in Syria's six-year-old civil war.

America unleashing military strikes on a Syrian air base late Thursday, officials saying

warships fired around 50 Tomahawk cruise missiles from the Mediterranean Sea,

targeting Syrian aircraft and airstrip and fuel stations near Holmes. A response to this week's deadly chemical weapons attack that killed more than 70 people.

There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons,

violated its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and ignored the urging of the UN Security Council.

The U.S. strike comes one day after Trump pointed the finger at Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

for the chemical attack, which the Syrian government denies launching.

U.S. military action sets Donald Trump at odds with Russia.

Moscow has air and ground forces deployed in Syria after intervening on behalf of Assad

two years ago to push back Sunni Muslim rebels.

Until now, Trump's almost exclusively focused his Syria policy on beating Islamic State militants

in the country's north, where American

special forces have supported Arab and Kurdish armed groups. It also marks a step

President Barack Obama never took. In 2013, he considered then rejected a cruise missile

strike also in response to use of chemical weapons by Assad loyalists. Yeah, it's, uh, it's, uh, Christine and Maurice, the Trump

administration.

It's, it's okay, it's okay.

I got it.

I got it, I got it.

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