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Syrian President Bashar Assad : "America Must Listen"
Der Spiegel ^ | 09/24/2006

Posted on 09/24/2006 4:36:06 AM PDT by Republicain

The Middle East, says Syrian President Bashar Assad, 40, seems to be teetering on the brink of chaos. He spoke with SPIEGEL about his country's difficult relationship with the United States, the pressure to go to war, and the consequences of the wars in Lebanon and Iraq.

(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: basharassad; syria; us

1 posted on 09/24/2006 4:36:07 AM PDT by Republicain
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To: Republicain

Feeling the heat, Syria?


2 posted on 09/24/2006 4:39:38 AM PDT by Alia
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To: Republicain
The Middle East, says Syrian President Bashar Assad, 40, seems to be teetering on the brink of chaos

Well, thats news.

In 400AD.

3 posted on 09/24/2006 4:41:18 AM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: Republicain

Why don't we tell him that after 9/11, a little chaos is what the Middle East needs.


4 posted on 09/24/2006 4:47:48 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Republicain
We see here the new Abegenidad party line. Abedinejad is sure he has found our weakness. Could be he is right. Abedinejad and now his servent Assad are romancing the Western Left passionately and playing their new song over and over on the MSM.

Buggers must be scared half to death. Definitely time to destroy Iranian nuclear weapon technology.
5 posted on 09/24/2006 4:49:09 AM PDT by Iris7 (Dare to be pigheaded! Stubborn! "Tolerance" is not a virtue!)
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To: Republicain
Middle East on the "Brink of Chaos". I can't believe that this lovely peaceful region has fallen so far.
6 posted on 09/24/2006 4:54:37 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: Republicain
"America must listen"

Would that we had a choice!

You can't turn on the tv or radio without hearing the latest diatribe from the mid-east.

Up yours!

7 posted on 09/24/2006 4:56:24 AM PDT by mitch5501 (typical)
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To: Republicain
The press has bought into the BS line that the worst thing that can happen in the world is that the Middle East dissolves into chaos.

As I see it, the Middle East is the CAUSE of most of the chaos in this world. It would be a natural result of the mixture of terorism, oil billions and Muslim lunacy that originates there that the civilized veneer cracks open and reveals the rabid hatred and evil that's the norm over there.

When I read these leaders saying "Oh, it's so horrible what Bush has wrought--war might break out all over the Middle East!" I translate that as "Bush is getting those who hoped to continue chipping away at the US quietly to freak out and go on a rampage that might hurt those who have been sitting quietly and enabling them."

8 posted on 09/24/2006 4:57:02 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Republican, atheist, pro-life, anti-illegal, book-reading no-goodnik!)
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To: Republicain

Well, at least he's not ordering us to convert to Islam, as the tiny tyrant from Iran does. But that Assad should blame the US for chaos in that hell-hole of the world, the Middle East, where Muslims have enjoyed killing other Muslims for decades, is ludicrous.


9 posted on 09/24/2006 4:58:07 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: mitch5501
Would that we had a choice! You can't turn on the tv or radio without hearing the latest diatribe from the mid-east. Up yours!

Right on, Brother, right on.

10 posted on 09/24/2006 5:04:24 AM PDT by NurdlyPeon (Wearing My 'Jammies Proudly)
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To: Republicain
" In my view, Washington's approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.."

Careful what you wish for Assad........You might just find yourself at the razors edge of that scalpel!

11 posted on 09/24/2006 5:10:26 AM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and Apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: Iris7
"Could be he is right. Abedinejad and now his servent Assad are romancing the Western Left passionately and playing their new song over and over on the MSM."

And that couldn't be a better thing for Republicans. I suspect the recent antics at the UN by Chavez and the Iranian nutcase have more to do with the recent trend "back to Republicans" showing up in the opinion polls than George Bush's campaigning.

Recent events are showing at every turn that the WOT is the RIGHT IDEA, and that the Democrats are simply incapable of carrying it out as needed.

12 posted on 09/24/2006 5:17:03 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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To: Republicain

Syrian President Asshat is the one who better be listening for the whistling of cruise missiles outside his window.

Sooner or later, it's gonna happen.


13 posted on 09/24/2006 5:18:43 AM PDT by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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To: Darkwolf377

There is one thing that stood out to me several years ago. I was up in Toronto driving along Yonge Street going from ON 407 down to the "401". The area just North of the 401 what I remembered from the late 80's/early 90's was pretty nice. I remembered there was a good Korean Restaurant - Dr. Kim's. When I drove through there back in 2003, I saw quite a few signs with Arabic writing. One other thing even with Toronto having the reputation of being a clean city, the neighborhood was pretty trashed. There were bars on the windows, trashed cars and trash along the side of the street. Quite a change.


14 posted on 09/24/2006 5:23:14 AM PDT by CORedneck
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To: bill1952
The Middle EastIslam, says Syrian President Bashar Assad, 40, seems to be teetering on the brink of chaos
15 posted on 09/24/2006 5:31:59 AM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: CORedneck

izlam provides for no moral foundation expressed through the will of individuals, only blind directives from sheiks and imans to the masses. So the individuals don't know how to conduct themselves in an orderly and just manner. You get trash, violence, despair, and anarchy. Coming to a neighborhood near you!


16 posted on 09/24/2006 5:49:18 AM PDT by gotribe (It's not a religion.)
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To: CORedneck
The oppression of totalitarian regimes so perverts society and pollutes peoples' minds that it takes a while to get priorities straightened out. The most encouraging sign I have seen lately is Gaza residents protesting unemployment. Maybe they will stop nursing 50 year old grievances and get a life.

As for Assad, he has nothing to say, except he wants to be a power broker. I don't believe for a minute he has 500,000 Golan Heights and Palestinian refugees. We probably have that many Syrian refugees, though, but they are not in camps.

17 posted on 09/24/2006 5:54:22 AM PDT by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: Republicain

Maybe it's time that Islam listens for a change.


18 posted on 09/24/2006 6:01:15 AM PDT by tkathy (Einstein: Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.)
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To: gotribe
So the individuals don't know how to conduct themselves in an orderly and just manner. You get trash, violence, despair, and anarchy. Coming to a neighborhood near you!
>BR> We're seeing more and more of this from the illegal Mexicans moving in.
19 posted on 09/24/2006 6:02:08 AM PDT by YellowRoseofTx
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To: YellowRoseofTx

Same thing in both cases: government as the moral foundation, in one case from religion in the other from socialist panacea.


20 posted on 09/24/2006 6:11:49 AM PDT by gotribe (It's not a religion.)
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