Bashar al-assad and the Syrian conflict

Lie after lie....how can the rebels do this? kill their own children, only a lunatic would believe that.

I do like the way the Western Media suddenly cares again, after a good month of Egypt being more interesting.

The al-Assad government has admitted that it has stocks of chemical weapons.

But the chances that the UN inspection team will access the true sites of the chemical attacks are very slim. It took month to negotiate permission to visit the three sites around the country now. Unfortunately, the nature of chemical agents is that the traces become so faint after only a few days so as to be inconclusive.

So, I am skeptical anything can be done in time ... if chemical agents were used.

Lie after lie....how can the rebels do this? kill their own children, only a lunatic would believe that.

If they had chemical weapons they would have ended bashar long time ago...they would have ended him, trust me!! They would not waste it on children as some here claim...a very unrealistic and sadistic claim.

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...you are missing the point here, which is funny...you are arguing if the 1300 were all children or some of them women or what not and you are not disputing why bashar killed them or the horrific scenes of children suffocating...But thats typical of pro-assads they miss the point, they go round in circles and never actually discuss the main point.


If I said all 1300 were children that's just a wee mistake I made while typing[emphasis added] but at least am not saying that wee kids fake their own death and that's okay to kill people because they dont agree with you?

Today alone he killed 1300 KIDS WITH CHEMICAL WEAPONS!

Bashar Al-Assad and many Awalites have assumed many of the positions of leadership in Syria and not by democratic means. Despite only making up approximately 12% of the demographics, they dominate the leadership roles. The majority obviously have little say in how the country is run and feel bitter towards the Alwaites. It is not quite different from the pretexts of the Rwandan genocide. Historically the Tutsi minority had been regarded as racially superior by the Germans and were thus given complete control over Rwanda despite only making up a small minority of the nation.

The events that are occurring now appear to be a repeat of 1982 where the Muslim Brotherhood tried to ignite a revolt against Hafez al-Assad with the intention to establish a ‘more religious society’. Now while I am not a supporter of religious states and believe religion and state should be separated, the reactions of Hafez al-Assad were horrendous and much similar to what we are seeing now from Bashar al-Assad. In order to stop the revolt and to scare the Sunni majority into not revolting again, he ordered the Hama massacre where he massacred tens of thousands of innocent Sunni people. Both father and son are dictators that will kill as many people as it takes in order to maintain the dictatorship. Dictators are never fair and care only about maintaining their positions of power.

I have always felt it's more reflective of the human attention span, our boredom and being inured to the quotidian drone of civilian casualties in some war in some foreign distant outback over the 9 o'clock news. Prolonged wars bore most people. And the nature of the press is to appeal to our interest ...

The UN is a bunch of Bull****ters.

no one believes them anymore, we know their games to well when they sent the inspectors who did nothing. politics is dirty! And I dont think any politics is going to save this chaos.

The syrians have given up hope on the world. They no longer ask for intervention from UK, USA or bloody france. They know what the world is cooking for them. Have you ever read the banners or their protest?

Do you know what they say?

They say we have no one but God which is true because right no there is no one doing anything for syria, they just talk the talk, this includes Saudi and other EU countries who pretend to be with the FSA.


This is a repeat of Bosnia, a repeat of hitler, we pretend we dont like blood...turns out we dont give a damn....

he used chemical weapons.So he built them and used them.Where is America's intervention?Or the war for Iraq's WMD was just a lie?

It was all a lie, politics is full of games.


what happened to wee tony blair, he wasted all our tax on Iraq faked chemical weapons so we can have another country under our name, its a competition you see between us and america who can invade the most and who can kill the most in the middle east under the name of "War on terror" pack of lies.

The only terrorists in this world is Bashar and Obama who is supporting him behind the curtains.

When Boston was bombed we were quick to say who done it, in fact we knew who done *it long before the CIA and what not cam along to investigate we just knew who caused it and made the whole world believe it BUT when 1300 die in syria in ONE DAY then Obama goes "OMG really? hmm we gonna have to look into that..."

he knows its happening he knows whats happening in syria 100% of the time, he just doesnt want too do anything about it so please please stop wasting your time asking him to do anything he wont...why would he deceive his long term friend Bashar who was made by the US, as always they make hypocrites so they can destroy the arab world and then they can see oh why should we intervene its not our mess.

Ama2007--it would be greatly to your credit to think a little about what you are posting. One of the great benefits of a format such as this is that it allows you to review and rework an initial hasty reaction before posting it.

For example, do you really wish to make a serious claim that there is some sort of competition between the US and the UK to kill people in the Middle East? Really? Or is this a hyperbolic outburst that really should not have made it into the finished post?
Again, an absolutely ludicrous statement that could have used any thought at all. The only terrorists in the world are Bashar Assad and Barack Obama? Really? Even assuming that it is accurate to label them as terrorists, the only ones? In the world?


The problems with the rest of the post are a bit more subtle.



I don't suppose you see any difference between these places and the sources of information we have from them that might affect our ability to know things?



Do you know anything at all about the political alignments involved? Assad an agent of America? Are you nuts? You're also ascribing a deviousness and contiguity of policy to the American administration that it simply doesn't have. Obama is floundering like a landed fish when it comes to world politics, not carrying out secret and long-term plans. Obama is not 'destroying the Arab world,' as if anybody could do a better job of that than Arabs. He is destroying American influence by making a series of inconsistent, panicky, and naive decisions, many of which involve being played like a fool by Putin.

I say it as it is, I don't sugar coat..... and if you cannot handle the truth then that's your problem.

You don't seem to understand the very basics about the geopolitics surrounding Syria though, for example that Assad is a client of Russia and Iran, who are supporting him in an attempt to counter American dominance in the region.

he used chemical weapons.So he built them and used them (...)

That is half the story, Assad is also protecting Israels ( which is American Dominance ) safety... if Syria was a client of Russia and Iran, then Israel will not sit back and let its north borders be at risk of an enemy.

Dont even tell me that Israel had troops on the Syrian boarder sides, the whole Qunaitra Provence is evacuated LONG time ago for the safety of Israel.

And yes its a genocide like it or not, Living in syria is different then watching the CNN news strip.

Then why is Syria so reluctant to have the UN look around?