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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.

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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
We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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Believe Lebanon Real
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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Average Broke Mind Talk Upgrade Versa Vice
We cannot use jihadists because it’s like shooting yourself in the foot.
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Feet Shooting Use
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
Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.
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Abroad Imported Revolution Should
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
Because of this interference for the last fifty years, that’s why they are very good only in creating problems, not in solving problems. That’s the problem with the American role.
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Country Create Good Problem Role
Its not about learning to trust. Its about learning what it is I place my trust in and why. Its like learning to see the forest for the trees. You cannot see the forest for the trees unless you are outside the forest.
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Awareness Forests Tree
I don’t believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.
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Believe Country Fighting Join
When 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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Terrorism War West
Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
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Country International Public Opinion
I don’t believe that in a couple of months Erdogan and the United States regime, and the Western regimes in general, and of course Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are going to stop the support of the terrorists.
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Believe Couple Qatar
We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria.
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Country Everything Future Relate
The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.
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Armament Government Legal
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
We’re not in the area where the alleged chemical attack happened. I said alleged. We’re not sure that anything happened.
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Alleged Chemicals Happen Sure
Al-Qaeda has one ideology and they go back to the same leadership in Afghanistan or in Syria or in Iraq. That’s the question. You have tens of thousands of foreigners, that’s definitely correct. We are fighting them on the ground and we know this.
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Fighting Leadership Question Same
Those fighters, the Syrian part that you’re talking about, lost its natural incubators in the Syrian society – they don’t have incubators anymore ; that’s why they have incubators abroad.
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Political Support Talking
Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East. That is why we are in contact with most of the problems forever, let us say, whether directly or indirectly.
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East Forever Middle Problem
The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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Agreement Defense Logical
The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.
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Democracy Political Reform
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
It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.
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Difficult East Explosions Middle
Actually, he gave false evidence [of chemical weapons]. In this case,[John] Kerry didn’t even present any evidence. He talked “we have evidence” and he didn’t present anything. Not yet, nothing so far ; not a single shred of evidence.
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Cases Chemicals Weapons
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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Advance Army Family National Support
Let’s talk… we have indications, let me just finish this point, because how can use WMD while your troops are only 100 meters away from it ? Is it logical ? It doesn’t happen. It cannot be used like this.
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Indication Point Troops Use

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