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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.

Bashar al-Assad

I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
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Country Dies Everything Made
The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.
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Decision People Political
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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Party Rebel Soldier
On the border area with Lebanon where [Hezbollah forces] want to protect themselves and cooperate with us, but they don’t exist all over Syria.
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Borders Cooperation Hezbollah Themselves
At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.
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Chemicals Ends Weapons
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
I don’t want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.
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Airplane Differences People
There can be no peace without unity.
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Hope Peace Unity
You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.
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Different East Middle Party
But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We’ll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It’s not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria.
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Crazy Prevent Spring War
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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Airports Cities Military
We cannot use jihadists because it’s like shooting yourself in the foot.
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Feet Shooting Use
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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Fighting War Years
When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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Interest Mold Wanted
Any strike will be as direct support to Al-Qaeda offshoot that’s called Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. You’re right about this. It’s going to be direct support.
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Country Islamic Support
[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.
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Borders Hezbollah Reason

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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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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