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Bashar Assad: The Evil Moron Who's Running Syria
Slate ^ | 3/16/05 | Chris Suellentrop

Posted on 03/15/2005 11:59:02 AM PST by gridlock

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: assad; chinless; syria
Link only. I don't think we are permitted to post even excerpts from Slate
1 posted on 03/15/2005 11:59:03 AM PST by gridlock
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To: gridlock

You mean EVIL DENTIST!............


2 posted on 03/15/2005 12:05:45 PM PST by Red Badger (The South seceded over refusal to end slavery. Blue states want to secede for the same reason......)
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To: Red Badger

No, he's an EVIL OPTHAMOLOGIST!!!


3 posted on 03/15/2005 12:08:16 PM PST by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: gridlock
When Assad came to power in June 2000, one week after the death of his father, Hafez Assad, many hoped that his ties to the West—the two years in London he spent training to become an ophthalmologist, his facility with English, his British-born Syrian wife—would make him a different kind of dictator. He was part of what Slate dubbed the "Arab Brat Pack," young rulers that were thought to be earnest technocrats, not ideological demagogues.

It is entirely possible here that Junior is a neophyte politically, and a gross incompetent administratively, and that smarter and more competent oppressors are calling the shots and pulling the strings in Assad's government.

4 posted on 03/15/2005 12:08:29 PM PST by My2Cents (America is divided along issues of morality, between the haves and the have-nots.)
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To: gridlock

No, he's an EVIL FERRET!

5 posted on 03/15/2005 12:09:51 PM PST by mewzilla (Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
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To: gridlock

Evil chinless opthamologist!


6 posted on 03/15/2005 12:13:06 PM PST by Quilla
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To: Quilla

LOL. Ferret Face.


7 posted on 03/15/2005 12:13:58 PM PST by mewzilla (Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
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To: Quilla

I'm trying to think of a torture, similar to the "Is it safe...?" in Marathon Man. "Which is better, 1 or 2? 1 or 2?..."


8 posted on 03/15/2005 12:15:19 PM PST by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: My2Cents
It is entirely possible here that Junior is a neophyte politically, and a gross incompetent administratively, and that smarter and more competent oppressors are calling the shots and pulling the strings in Assad's government.

My theory exactly. This guy may be little more than a figurehead.

9 posted on 03/15/2005 12:16:18 PM PST by Paradox (Occam was probably right.)
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To: gridlock

Well, at least he's not an EVIL PROCTOLOGIST!........


10 posted on 03/15/2005 12:17:38 PM PST by Red Badger (The South seceded over refusal to end slavery. Blue states want to secede for the same reason......)
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To: gridlock

The word moron is too good a name for Assad.


11 posted on 03/15/2005 12:18:21 PM PST by youngtory (Rights are rights are rights. Just like a proof is a proof is a proof.-Liberal dorks.)
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To: gridlock
Option "A" or Option "B".


12 posted on 03/15/2005 12:23:40 PM PST by Quilla
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To: Red Badger
Evil proctologist is redundant!
13 posted on 03/15/2005 12:29:02 PM PST by homeywhite
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To: My2Cents

"Junior is a neophyte politically, and a gross incompetent administratively, and that smarter and more competent oppressors are calling the shots and pulling the strings in Assad's government."

I think your right. We should be looking beyond Assad when dealing with Syria.

Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com


14 posted on 03/15/2005 12:32:32 PM PST by JeffersonRepublic.com (The 51st state is right around the corner.)
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To: gridlock

No1 He's a pencil necked, ferret faced, halfwit!


15 posted on 03/15/2005 1:37:52 PM PST by sheik yerbouty
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