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One of your readers submitted a letter to The Salt Lake Tribune recently that stated Raytheon's 59 cruise missiles, dropped on the Syrian Air Base after the chemical attack, cost $70 million, which consequently (the missiles) had to be replaced.
Supplemental to this, as I was listening to "Democracy Now" (real news), on KRCL (90.9 FM), it was stated that after we, the USA, per the president's order, dropped those missiles on that Syrian air base, that same air base was functional within two to three hours after the bombing.
Seems the president warned Russia of the impending strike, so Russia warned Syria, which moved all the pertinent equipment, like airplanes for example, before the strike. Supplemental to this is that Raytheon's stock rose 23 percent within four hours after the strike on the Syrian air base. Guess who owns stock in Raytheon? You guessed it, our president. But, no conflict of interest there, huh.
Norman Steffen
Murray