You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there’s killing and destruction on daily basis.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIt’s not about me, again, this fight is not my fight, it’s not the fight of the government ; it’s the fight of the country, of the Syrian people.
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Simply naming objectives isn’t sufficient for a vision. If I say that I’m going to build a large palace, but I don’t have any money to do so, then that is not a vision – it’s an illusion.
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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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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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The part in Aleppo, what [people] call it the eastern part, is occupied by the terrorists for the last three years, and they have been using the civilians as human shields.
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Nobody knows [who they are] because when [terrorists] are dead and they are killed, they don’t have any ID.
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At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.
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We didn’t say that 80% [of terrorists], for example, or the majority or the vast majority, are foreigners. We said the vast majority are Al-Qaeda or Al-Qaeda offshoot organizations in this region.
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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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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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Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.
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We’re not like the American administration, we’re not social media administration or government. We are a government that deals with reality. When we have evidence, we’ll announce it.
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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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[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
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