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We’re not sure that if there’s chemical weapon used and who used it. We can’t talk about virtual things, we have to talk about facts.

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How could that army do that if it’s a family army or a sect army ? What about the rest of the country who support the government ? It’s not realistic, it doesn’t happen. Otherwise, the whole country will collapse.
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Country Family Government Happen Otherwise
A bomb is a bomb, what’s the difference between different kinds of bombs? All bombs are to kill, but it’s about how to use it.
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Differences Different Use
To have opposition ? We have it, and you can go and meet with them. We have some of them within the government, we have some of them outside the government. They are opposition. We have it.
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Government Opposition Some Within
From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That’s another question.
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Army Country Government
We can say, you can win the war only when you restore stability in Syria.
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Stability War Winning
I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.
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Believe United States Violence
Everything else should be a piece of cake. Feel good, feel happy, feel healthy, feel loved, feel abundant, feel creative, feel compassionate, feel knowledgeable, feel powerful.
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Acknowledge Everything Happy Powerful
We’ve been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time.
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Brotherhood Kind Terrorism
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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East Government Middle Proposed
According to what we’ve been seeing recently in the area where the terrorists control, where they ban people from going to schools, ban young men from shaving their beards, and women have to be covered from head to toe.
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Men People School
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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Administration Chemical Congress Evidence Second
The army is making good advancement on daily basis against the terrorists. Of course, they still have the support of Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and some Western countries including the United States, but the only option that we have in that regard is to win.
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Army Country Winning
Your policy should be a mixture between your interests and how you reach your ends, but based on values. It cannot be only the end justifies the means, because for the criminals, ends justify the means, for thieves, for every illegal and immoral action, the end justifies the means.
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Criminal Mean Thieves
You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there’s killing and destruction on daily basis.
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Long War Winning
In the end a lie is a lie.
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Ends Lie Lying
Every friend of Syria is looking for peaceful solution, and we are convinced about that. We have this advice, and without this advice we are convinced about it.
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Advice Country Peaceful
Opposition doesn’t mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.
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Arms Mean People
That’s all before the crisis. We always have this kind of cooperation with Iran [Supplies, weaponry].
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Cooperation Country Kind
This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September.
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People Support War
Conversely, it is correct to say that bringing about peace would be the best way to fight terror.
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Fighting Peace Terror
First of all, when you have a doctor who cut the leg to prevent the patient from the gangrene if you have to, we don’t call butcher ; you call him a doctor, and thank you for saving the lives.
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Cutting Doctors Legs
It’s not religious war, but Al-Qaeda always use religions, Islam – actually, as a pretext and as a cover and as a mantle for their war and for their terrorism and for their killing and beheading and so on.
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Islam Religious War
[It is important] to have stability and to have security, which means humanitarian equals fighting terrorists. You cannot talk about humanitarian aid and supporting the terrorists at the same time. You cannot, you have to choose.
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Fighting Important Mean
I cannot afford to make mistakes.
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Afford Making Mistake
If the American administration want to support Al-Qaeda – go ahead. That’s what we have to tell them, go ahead and support Al-Qaeda, but don’t talk about rebels and free Syrian army.
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Army Rebel Support
As we see now the American officials, they say something in the morning and they do the opposite in the evening. So, you cannot judge those people according to what they say. You cannot take them at their words, to be frank.
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Morning Opposites People
Terrorism is a state of mind that on the one hand has to do with ignorance and, on the other hand, can be attributed to a feeling of desperation over the political situation, which at some point takes the form of revenge.
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Hands Ignorance Revenge

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