It’s not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.
BASHAR AL-ASSADThe United States’ credibility is at an all-time low. So, this war is against the interest of the Untied States.
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As a state, as a government, in 2001 we proposed to the United Nations to empty or to get rid of every WMD in the Middle East, and the United States stood against that proposal. This is our conviction and policy.
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It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
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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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You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.
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They want to criticize you, let them criticize and do not worry. Just be transparent with your people and tell them this is the reality.
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Freedom and democracy are nothing but instruments, just like stability. The goal is called progress and growth. Anyone who puts freedom ahead of stability is hurting growth.
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When you talk about Al-Qaeda it doesn’t matter if he’s Syrian or American or from Europe or from Asia or Africa.
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Israel has WMD, and it has to sign [chemical warfare agreement], and Israel is occupying our land, so that’s we talked about the Middle East, not Syria, not Israel ; it should be comprehensive.
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I’ve never heard of soft war.There’s no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.
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I am not talking about the state or average or common people. I am talking about everybody; because when you close your mind as an official you cannot upgrade and vice versa.
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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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There’s a video on YouTube where the terrorists clearly make trials [of chemical weapons] on a rabbit and kill the rabbit and said “this is how we’re going to kill the Syrian people.”
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You hardly find any military base in distant areas from the [Syria] cities unless it’s an airport or something like this, but most of the military bases or centers within inhabited areas.
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Opposition doesn’t mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.
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You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.
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