It’s heating up: Syria readies to recapture Idlib, Moscow warns of provocation to frame Assad

I have no idea; I wasn't alive at the time! Are they killing their own people because they know which ones are opposing them?
In a gas attack all people get killed, there is no selection.

 

Yes, that's what I imagine, too. How and where is Assad and his government surviving?
Apparently, he is still driving around...

Syrian President Bashar Assad was filmed driving through the recently liberated areas in the suburbs of Damascus on his way to visit frontline troops in eastern Ghouta.

https://www.rt.com/news/421746-assad-drives-to-eastern-ghouta/
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He is the most gutsy country president in the world!!

 

So the next time you reference a historical event I will have to ask how you know it to be true if the event took place before you were born. Fair enough?

 

Why now? They have lived peacefully for many decades, if not millenniums. If I remember correctly, it was outsiders who riled them up to protest against Assad... a specialty of the US, always fomenting strife and unrest to create a chaos situation.
Here are some facts for your information and enlightenment:
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Syria cooperated with the United States following the September (9/11) attacks, but this did not prevent a propaganda campaign against the country, including the assertion (cooked up by the Israelis) that Iraq’s missing WMD were moved to Syria.

The Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003 was part of the effort to demonize the country and its leader, Bashar al-Assad.

In 2006, while speaking in Alabama, Gen. Wesley Clark recounted his conversation with a general at the Pentagon in November, 2001. (seven countries in five years!)

The Bush neocon clique considered the overthrow of Syria an important element in its war against Muslims and Arabs in the Middle East.

In late 2005, Richard Perle, at the time described as the Prince of Darkness, attended a meeting at the home of Farid Ghadry, the head of the Syrian Reform Party. Ghadry had met with Dick Cheney to strategize about regime change in Syria. He told the Wall Street Journal that Perle’s pal Ahmad Chalabi “paved the way in Iraq for what we want to do in Syria.” Ghadry was close to major players in the neocon think-tanks and foundations.

Or put more frankly, the Bush neocons and their “thinkers” (as Bush called them), envisioned the same sort of widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure, social support sytems and staggering loss of human life in Syria as they had successfully inflicted on Iraq.

Now we learn that this concerted effort to violate Syria’s national sovereignty and meddle in its internal affairs was passed on from the Bush neocons to apparatchiks in the Obama administration.

“The State Department has secretly funded Syrian opposition groups, according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks,” the Washington Post reports today.

The cables reveal the State Department has funneled around $6 million since 2006 to a group of Syrian exiles to operate a London-based satellite channel, Barada TV, and finance activities inside Syria, according to the newspaper.

Syria is the next piece on the geopolitical chessboard.

Barada TV began broadcasting in April, 2009, and ramped up operations to cover the mass protests in Syria that began last month as part of a campaign by intelligence agencies to overthrow regimes in the Middle East. These color revolutions are supported by establishment NGOs and the CIA through USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy, and Freedom House. NED and NGOs are now used by the CIA as the preferred way to overthrow governments. Others claim Freedom House is a tool for the CIA and terrorists.

Read on here:
https://www.infowars.com/cables-reveal-state-department-cia-ngos-fomented-syrian-unrest/
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So, dear Margot2, I hope this will cause you to think and reconsider your stance on Assad. You, along with millions of other Americans, have been thoroughly and completely brainwashed by the controlled media. You probably also believe in the fairy tale of Muslim carpet cutters flying huge airplanes full of fuel and people into the New York trade towers.

 

That's a good idea!

 

Infowars is trash.. Syria has NOT been peaceful for decades. 9-11 happened pretty much as they said it did. Freedom House is also trash.. a propaganda outfit.

Forget Chalabi.. He was an Iranian stooge.

Literacy has been declining in Syria for 20 years,, Do you know why?

 

I don't think you know what a "superpower" is.

 

No, I don't.

 

Because Syria was so impoverished that 11 year old boys had to go to work.. Assad is a ruthless, incompetent dictator.

 

As if they have any choice....

 

Margot, wasn't there an incident recently where your king called the PM of Lebanon to Saudi Arabia, and told him to resign? I don't recall the details, but wasn't there something about France having to intervene to get him free? So who controls Lebanon? The people, Hezbollah, or the Saudi king?

 

LOLOL... You do feed on rumors.

 

Riiiiight....couldn't have been the government with a long history of precisely these attacks. Had to be the rebels framing the government for the attacks...a government that is already well know to carry out such attacks.

It makes perfect sense, if you don't think about it.

I have an idea...i am going to frame Ted Bundy for murder! That way people will think he's a murderer!

 

Then why are the Syrian people cheering him? I'll tell you why Margot, to show the world not to believe anything coming out of Washington's propaganda outlets.

 

Because they suffer if they don't. Duh. Why do North Koreans worship the Kims? Come on...

 

Damascus hasn't suffered the way the rest of Syria and its people have suffered.

 

Is it because Syria was secular, and Assad had an open door policy, and was allowing oppressed people to enter his country? Oppressed people are usually uneducated.

 

No, it is because he is a kleptocrat that stifled free thought in his country and created entire swaths of impoverished people and entire areas with terrible infrastructure and terrible public services.

Good grief, who are you? People who get paid to spread propaganda aren't as strident and ridiculous as you are.

 

Damascus is packed with hundreds of thousands of refugees, who needed the protection of the Syrian army - like the Christians for instance.

 

I know Syrians.

 

So do I. I also know the size and temperature of the sun, without having ever visited. As it turns out, you can learn things by reading.

 

Oh, then the Syrians I knew who had moved back and were praising Assad were lying? WOW! They certainly had me fooled.

 

Your personal anecdote of a few people doesn't debunk a word I said. For you to imply that it does betrays that you are either not rational or not honest.

 

It depends on what you read. But let's leave that to personal discernment.

 

No, it depends on what is true. Though, I can see how a propagandist would forward such a silly idea.