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MCalavera
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07 Dec 2011, 8:23 am

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16065131



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07 Dec 2011, 9:55 am

MCalavera wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16065131


The man is a miserable lying bastard.

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07 Dec 2011, 10:09 am

"No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person”

Bashar Assad
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Good, now we know for sure he's a crazy person, crazy persons should not rule.



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08 Dec 2011, 7:51 pm

what gets me is that despite this i have heard ex-pats or their decendants defending assad and his regime and regurgitating the "armed criminal gangs" rhetoric when it is so obvious that assad is a dictator and that democracy protestors are representative of the will of the majority.
"I don't own them, I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces."- that ones my favourite quote i think.



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09 Dec 2011, 3:21 am

VMSmith wrote:
what gets me is that despite this i have heard ex-pats or their decendants defending assad and his regime and regurgitating the "armed criminal gangs" rhetoric when it is so obvious that assad is a dictator and that democracy protestors are representative of the will of the majority.
"I don't own them, I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces."- that ones my favourite quote i think.


He is claiming no responsibility for what happens on his watch. That is a very dangerous attitude if innocently held and worse if it is just a lie to put a better face on his evil. Heads of state must be held accountable for what happens when they are in charge.


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09 Dec 2011, 11:35 am

Bashar al-Assad needs to get out of the tub, because Baath-time is over.



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09 Dec 2011, 2:22 pm

Bashar al-Assad is a chip off the old block. His father was a butcher of his own people and so is he. His father killed up to 40,000 people in the city of Hama in February 1982.