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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
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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People Reality Worry
We asked for a delegation [of the Red Cross] in March 2013 when the first attack happened in Aleppo in the north of Syria,
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Cross Delegation Happen Red Team
Anyone who’s not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you’re advancing ?
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Military Use Weapons
From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.
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Country Support Years
When they don’t have support within their country, they couldn’t continue more than – how many weeks ? – three weeks. So, the only reason we stand here for two years and a half is because we have internal support, public support.
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Continue Country More Support Week
Without the public support, we cannot withstand two years and a half. Look at the other countries, look what happened in Libya, in Tunisia and in Egypt.
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Country Half Look Year
This is cooperation [with Hezbollah, Iran , from Russia], I don’t know what you mean by support. We have cooperation with countries for decades. Why talk about this cooperation now ?
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Cooperation Country Mean
“Winning” is a subjective word, but we are making advancement. This is the correct word, because winning for some people is when you finish completely.
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Advancement People Winning
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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Country Institution People State Video YouTube
We’re talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.
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Constitution Responsibility Talking
For Turkey, they think that if the Muslim Brotherhood take over the rest of the region, they will be very comfortable, they will be very happy, they will make sure that their political future is guaranteed.
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Country Political Thinking
Trust that the thing in life that excites you the most comes complete with all the tools necessary to support you in the doing of that thing. It is automatic; it is built in. All you need to do is act on the opportunities that doing that situation brings to you.
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Life Opportunity Support Thing
Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it’ll soon happen elsewhere.
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Country Lines Religious
We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria.
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Country Everything Future Relate
Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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Diversity Fabric Social
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
From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.
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Country Decision President
The Russians are fighting for us, for the world, and for their self.
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Fighting Self World
You look at [terrorists] faces, they look foreigners, but where are they coming from ? How precise this estimate is difficult to tell, but definitely the majority are Al-Qaeda.
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Estimate Looks Majority Precise
We are worried that rebels are taking control in many countries, and look at the results now. Are you satisfied as an American ? What are the results ? Nothing. Very bad – nothing good.
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Country Looks Rebel
The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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Occupation People Problem
In any war, people will pay the price.
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Pay People Price War
You cannot be desperate when the army is making advances. That should have happened – if we take into consideration that this presumption is correct and this is reality – you use it when you’re in a desperate situation.
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Army Desperate Reality Situations
We don’t say that we don’t have it, we’re still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.
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Country Secular Secularism
It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
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Accomplish Country Human More Resources
Hamas will not disappear. Hamas will not raise the white flag. Hamas has the trust of the people, and anyone who wishes to destroy it must destroy an entire people.
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People White Wish

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