Protesters at White House, US Cities Over Trump’s Syria Strikes

Activists and concerned citizens have gathered in 35 cities across America to send a message to President Donald Trump that his acts of war will not go unnoticed and will not be tolerated, Sputnik reported on Friday.

“Instead of bombing first and asking questions later, shouldn’t there be an objective investigation into the facts?” the ANSWER Coalition said in a post. Rallies are being held across the country and perhaps most prominently, in front the White House.

 Washington’s strike on Syria is being justified by what is called “humanitarian motives” but organizers of the protests insist this couldn’t be further from the truth. As with the imaginary weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, “again, the US government asserts that the targeted government possesses and has used weapons of mass destruction as the rationales for another bombing campaign.”

“At this point, every person in the United States should assume that the US government, the Pentagon, and the CIA are lying when they seek to justify this new military aggression.”

Protestors have gathered in front of the Trump Tower locations in New York and Chicago.

“The Trump regime has just started bombing Syria. We must not fall for the lies and propaganda,” one of the groups organizing, the Answer Coalition, an offshoot of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, wrote in a statement about the protest.

The statement demands that a potential conflict in Syria is not about democracy or humanitarian intervention, but rather US superiority.

 “Just like the rest of his agenda, Trump’s attack is about increasing the profits of the billionaires,” the statement continued.

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