Why did the U.S. just bomb Syria?
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🗓️ 16 April 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in. |
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| 0:30.0 | Just over a week ago, we explained the very complicated war in Syria on this show. |
| 0:40.6 | And just one day after that, the war got even more complicated. |
| 0:45.2 | The Syrian President used chemical weapons on his people again. |
| 0:49.6 | President Trump said that was unacceptable again, and the United States has now bombed |
| 0:54.4 | Syrian facilities again. |
| 0:57.3 | The bombing was one week in the making. |
| 0:59.9 | Let's start with April 7th. |
| 1:03.9 | There was an attack on a town called Duma. |
| 1:06.9 | The Syrian American Medical Society said a chlorine bomb hit his hospital near the capital |
| 1:11.4 | Damascus. |
| 1:12.4 | Damascus being the capital of Syria. |
| 1:14.4 | Alex Ward writes about defense at Vox. |
| 1:17.1 | We now know, based on inspectors on the ground, that about a week ago, there was chlorine, |
| 1:23.1 | gas, and sarin gas used that eventually killed about 40 men, women, and children in |
| 1:28.0 | the town. |
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