Dems revolt vs. an Assad-kisser
and foremost,” Spicer added.
An executive order, signed in March by Trump but being fought in the courts, would bar travelers from six Muslim-majority nations for 90 days and suspend Syria’s refugee resettlement program for 120 days.
Hours earlier, Tillerson — a day before his first official state visit to Moscow — used a visit to a World War II memorial in Italy to say that the U.S. will stand up against evil.
Tillerson, in Europe for the G-7 summit, spent his first day of the gathering rallying world leaders behind a strategy to resolve Syria’s protracted civil war — and used the site in a Tuscan village where Nazis massacred more than 500 civilians during World War II to help make his point.
“We rededicate ourselves to holding to account any and all who commit crimes against the innocents anywhere in the world,” Tillerson said at Sant’Anna di Stazzema.
Tillerson will sit down with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in what promises to be a visit fraught with tension over Syria.
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, after a meeting with Tillerson, floated the possibility of new sanctions on both the Syrian and Russian militaries. A MAJORITY OF Americans back President Trump’s decision to launch missile strikes against Syria, a new poll shows. Fifty-seven percent approved of Thursday’s air strike, according to a CBS News poll released Monday. Along party lines, 84% of Republicans and 40% of Democrats supported the move. Further American involvement in Syria, however, proved far less popular. Just 18% said they were willing to have the U.S. engage in full military involvement, including ground troops. Thirty percent supported only U.S. air strikes, 26% backed only diplomatic talks, and 15% wanted no U.S. involvement at all. Almost seven out of 10 people said Trump needed approval from Congress before pursuing further military action in the war-torn country. DEMOCRATIC Rep. Tulsi Gabbard took heat from her own party after saying she was “skeptical” Syrian President Bashar Assad was behind last Tuesday’s chemical weapons attack.
Ex-Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean and Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden urged voters to oust the Hawaiian from the House for doubting U.S. intelligence in the wake of a retaliatory missile strike on Syria.
“This is a disgrace. Gabbard should not be in Congress,” Dean tweeted Saturday night, later adding, “I’m not blasting a Dem for disagreeing. I’m blasting for raising doubts about Assad's chemical massacre. I believe in country over party.”
Gabbard (photo inset) — whose surprise Syria trip to meet with Assad in January raised eyebrows — compared intel cited by President Trump with the faulty “weapons of mass destruction” argument used to justify the Iraq War.
“I’m skeptical because we have to take at a premium the cost of these wars . . . at a time where we don’t have money to build the roads that we need here in Hawaii or in other parts of the country,” Gabbard said.