The sarin gas is a very primitive gas. You can have it done in the backyard of a house ; it’s a very primitive gas. So, it’s not something complicated.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWhen you have terrorism, you have a war. When you have a war, you always have innocent lives that could be the victim of any war, so, we don’t have to discuss what the image in the west before discussing the image in Syria. That’s the question.
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The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn’t mean that people hate me.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.
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The second thing that we want to tell Congress, that they should ask and that what we expect them to ask this administration about the evidence that they have regarding the chemical story and allegations that they presented.
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In the end a lie is a lie.
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Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That’s in any war, any war is a bad war.
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The question is who threw chemicals on the same day on our soldiers. That’s the same question. Technically, not the soldiers. Soldiers don’t throw missiles on themselves. So, either the rebels, the terrorists, or a third party. We don’t have any clue yet.
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We can say, you can win the war only when you restore stability in Syria.
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Syria is in a state of war since its land was occupied for more than four decades, and the nature of the frontier in Syria implies that most of the army is in inhabited areas, most of the centers are in inhabited areas.
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Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that’s what happened.
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If it’s not a national army, it cannot have the support, and if it doesn’t have the public support of every sect, it cannot do its job and advance recently. It cannot. The army of the family doesn’t make national war.
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You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.
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It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
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Regarding fighting terrorism, we are ready to cooperate with anyone in this world with no conditions. That’s crux of our policy, not today, not yesterday; for years, even before the war on Syria, we always said that.
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