President Donald Trump said Friday evening in a national address that he ordered precision strikes on Syria in retaliation for Bashar al-Assad's 'evil and despicable' poison gas attack that killed at least 60 people last weekend. Speaking from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, left, the commander-in-chief of the United States said the strikes pummeled targets associated with Assad's chemical weapons capabilities. 'This massacre was a significant escalation in a pattern of chemical weapons use by the very terrible regime. The evil and despicable attack left mothers and fathers, infants and children thrashing in pain and gasping for air.' Trump said of the Syrian dictator's horrific April 7 attack on innocent civilians, right. 'These are not the actions of a man. They are crimes of a monster, instead.' Trump forcefully confronted Iran and Russia for aligning themselves with 'barbarism and brutality' and said the United States and its allies in the strike, France and Britain, are prepared 'to sustain this response' until Assad discontinues his use of internationally weapons. 'What kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women and children?' Trump asked. 'The nations of the world can be judged by the friends they keep. No nation can succeed in the long run by promoting rogue states, brutal tyrants and murderous dictators.'
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