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Syrian dictator Assad, wife living life of luxury while country in tatters
The Sun via Fox News ^ | April 13, 2018 | Non Listed

Posted on 04/13/2018 12:10:00 PM PDT by BeadCounter

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In 2012, Wikileaks published private emails from the 42-year-old Brit showing she had splashed out $350,000 on 130 pieces of furniture when the bloody civil war had been raging for one year.

She also bought a pair of $7,000 shoes with crystal-encrusted heels and had the goods shipped to Dubai, to get around sanctions.

The murderous pair’s ultra-modern presidential mansion — commissioned in 1979 and designed by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange — is thought to have cost up to $1 billion.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: assad; propaganda; russia; syria
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To: BeadCounter

Hope they enjoy it now. This never ends well for these type of people.


41 posted on 04/13/2018 12:46:19 PM PDT by HarleyD ("There are very few shades of grey."-Dr. Eckleburg)
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To: BeadCounter

I hear that Saudi Barbarian leaders live pretty well, too.

One guy even had a gold-plated toothbrush.


42 posted on 04/13/2018 12:51:07 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Socon-Econ; Colonel Kangaroo; Billthedrill; humblegunner

I am with Tomi Lahren, Michelle Malkin, and Laura Ingraham on this topic. Deep State is trying to lure us to start bombing.
Those people hate Americans and the American lifestyle over there. We need to stay out of their 1000-year civil wars.


43 posted on 04/13/2018 12:52:12 PM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: WisconsinRep

Which person in that photo is claimed to be descended from the prophet Mohammed?


44 posted on 04/13/2018 12:55:44 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: BeadCounter

Imagine my shock!


45 posted on 04/13/2018 12:56:55 PM PDT by Company Man (SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED)
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To: BeadCounter; All
I don't care how he lives, he's not busy running slave markets or burning folks in cages.

Here's the other side: The Truth About the War in Syria by a Canadian reporter who was there.

46 posted on 04/13/2018 1:04:46 PM PDT by slowhandluke (It's hard to be cynical enough in this age.)
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To: mac_truck

Brooks-Baker connected Queen Elizabeth to Muhammad via Zaida of Seville, a Muslim princess from the 11th century who converted to Christianity and became King Alfonso VI of Castile’s concubine. However, it’s not clear if Zaida was actually related to Muhammad or not.

https://www.history.com/news/is-queen-elizabeth-related-to-the-prophet-muhammad


47 posted on 04/13/2018 1:05:59 PM PDT by WisconsinRep
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To: WarlordBK

“In California that’s a multi-million dollar home.”

In California a 2br, 1ba 800sf hovel is a ‘multimillion dollar home’.

And that’s BEFORE the tax bill!


48 posted on 04/13/2018 1:20:25 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: BeadCounter

So they’re hauling out this well won out ‘known’ news again regarding Assads wife.......like it’s suppose to be astounding or frightfully upsetting.....


49 posted on 04/13/2018 1:23:23 PM PDT by caww
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To: rktman

What’s the point? Is this supposed to be a reason for US to go to war in Syria? We’ll have to wage a lot of wars around the globe if we’re supposed to attack every high-living autocrat

Maybe we should start with the Saudi rulers?


50 posted on 04/13/2018 1:27:34 PM PDT by WilliamIII
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To: BeadCounter

Not much different than any other dictators in the world. We should have made Syria an ally had that been possible in the geopolitical scheme of things. Their alliance with Iran and Russia is unfortunate.

Not excusing any unspeakable and evil things he has done to his own people. That takes a special kind of ***hole.


51 posted on 04/13/2018 1:28:10 PM PDT by ExpatCanuck
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To: BeadCounter

Unlike American senators, congressmen and former presidents who became multi-millionaires while in office and after leaving their government jobs.


52 posted on 04/13/2018 1:31:25 PM PDT by Iron Munro (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. -- Voltaire.)
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To: BeadCounter

Isn’t it always like this in communist/socialist/dictatorship countries?


53 posted on 04/13/2018 1:39:09 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: BeadCounter

That’s what strongman thugs do. So do mullahs.


54 posted on 04/13/2018 1:41:06 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: DoughtyOne

Sooner or later he and his bride will be “Ceausescued”


55 posted on 04/13/2018 1:45:34 PM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: WisconsinRep

When you are done lol you might want to apologize to the thousands of families of our soldiers killed in Iraq by terrorists that Assad allowed to travel from Syria into Iraq.


56 posted on 04/13/2018 1:48:43 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama)
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To: Billthedrill

Is anyone surprised about Waters “mansion”? Remember, she is a demodummie politician who has worked her way “up”. Stealing and graft are hard work.


57 posted on 04/13/2018 1:50:37 PM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

I would rather see Mubarak, Hussein, Gadhafi, and Assad ruling as opposed to ISIS. It’s a no brainer who Mideast people flock to after a dictator is removed. The removal of Hussein and Gadhafi has lead to severe repercussions. We were lucky with Egypt as the military thwarted Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood and less so with the new Islamic Iraq. Removing Assad would be devastating. None of this is America’s fight. It’s entanglement that has zero upside.


58 posted on 04/13/2018 2:14:03 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: BeadCounter

I like this headline better:

“American politicians and their wives and mistresses living life of luxury while country in tatters”


59 posted on 04/13/2018 2:15:01 PM PDT by armourenthusiast (Trumperific)
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To: WisconsinRep
Has most of the media and Washington, DC forgotten Nana Piglosi's 2007 trip ti Syria when she tried to undermine the George 'Dubya' Bush administrations negotiations with Assad?


60 posted on 04/13/2018 2:18:45 PM PDT by Iron Munro (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. -- Voltaire.)
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