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How Lucky Is Syria’s President?
Al-Monitor ^ | September 12, 2013 | Ali Hashem

Posted on 02/05/2016 8:45:17 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

Bashar al-Assad may be the luckiest man in the Middle East, and maybe in the world. The defiant Syrian president has been under fierce popular, military, regional and global pressure to step down, his country is almost destroyed, more than one hundred thousand of his people have been killed and thousands of his soldiers splintered.

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1 posted on 02/05/2016 8:45:17 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Reminds me of an old joke. A man falls 5 stories from a scaffold. He wakes up in the hospital in a full body cast hurting all over. The doctor walks in and says, “Well, you’re a lucky man”.

The guy says, “Funny, I don’t feel lucky.”


2 posted on 02/05/2016 8:56:20 PM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man St anding.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Things worked out just like the article predicted.


3 posted on 02/05/2016 9:01:38 PM PST by MUDDOG
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There wouldn’t have been all the killing if not for Obama and McCain furnishing weapons to terrorists.

Obama backed his muslim brotherhood pals. McCain just likes blowing things up.


4 posted on 02/05/2016 9:18:33 PM PST by boycott (--)
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To: boycott

Exactly right ... spot on


5 posted on 02/05/2016 9:35:56 PM PST by Neu Pragmatist (Trump is the only one who will secure our borders . Vote Trump)
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To: MinorityRepublican

O deliberately tried to put his terrorista pals into power in Syria like he did with Isis and Egypt and and __ and has now caused tens of thousands of murders there. And the slaughter continues


6 posted on 02/05/2016 10:07:38 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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To: faithhopecharity

The islamic brotherhood is Obama’s and Hitlery’s main thrust in their war on Isreal so they could keep their hands clean. But our Creator has other ideas.


7 posted on 02/05/2016 10:21:47 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: fella

Agreed! And even the majority of Israelis have awoken to reality - survival requires strong defense — ( and I’m sure God is helping them do it )


8 posted on 02/05/2016 10:24:57 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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To: MinorityRepublican

Damascus will become a desolate heap of ruins.

Lucky? I wouldn’t call it that.


9 posted on 02/06/2016 5:52:49 AM PST by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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