Kinzinger: US air strikes on Syria will save lives

Posted on April 7, 2017

By Eric Stock

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Channahon, said the United States sent a clear message against the ‘barbaric Syrian regime’ and the entire world by launching a missile strike on a Syrian air base which killed seven people.

Kinzinger has called for strikes against the Assad regime since the first reports of chemical attacks.

“Instead, President Obama failed to take action and we as a nation have watched this genocide claim nearly 500,000 Syrian lives,” Kinzinger said.

President Trump ordered the air strikes after a recent chemical attack on the Syrian people earlier this week killed more than 80 civilians.

“The horrific atrocities of the Idlib gas attack this week shook the world as we witnessed innocent civilians gasping for their last breath, dying at the hands of Assad’s regime,” Kinzinger said. “The U.S. attack on the Syrian air base will help save more innocents from meeting that same fate, and help prevent future use of such vial (sic) attacks.”

Eric Stock can be reached at [email protected].

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