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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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And let’s say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.
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Completely Country Same Style
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
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
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
Before the 11th of September, in my discussions with many officials of the United States, some of them are Congressmen, I used to say that “don’t deal with terrorists as playing games.” It’s a different story. You’re going to pay the price if you’re not wise in dealing with terrorists.
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Games Pay Playing Price Wise
I think the Congress is elected by people, it represents the people, and works for their interest. The first question that they should ask themselves : what do wars give America, since Vietnam till now ? Nothing. No political gain, no economic gain, no good reputation.
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Country Thinking War
We feel pain for every Syrian victim.
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Feels Pain Victim
I don’t believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.
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Believe Principles War
[Chemical weapons] isn’t about what the United States believe in, it’s about the reality that we have, and this reality, we own it, we don’t have to discuss it.
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Believe Chemical Reality United States Weapon
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
Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.
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Abroad Imported Revolution Should
We’ve been living in difficult circumstances and we prepare ourselves for every possibility. But that doesn’t mean if you’re prepared things will be better ; it’s going to get worse with any foolish strike or stupid war.
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Mean Stupid War
That’s all before the crisis. We always have this kind of cooperation with Iran [Supplies, weaponry].
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Cooperation Country Kind
It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
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Democracy Persons Society
There is no good war.
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Good War War
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

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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