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To: Katelew who wrote (419624)4/2/2011 6:31:11 PM
From: Bearcatbob7 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 793891
 
"Why isn't the right glad that the ME is finally trying to throw off all these Sadam-like dictators, and doing so on their own? I thought this is what conservatives and Bush supporters wanted to have happen. Seriously. I'm genuinely confused."

Oh Kate we are. The problem we have is how the team of the dear leader thinks Assad is a reformer. Yes confused - I cannot understand it. Can you explain to me how Assad is a reformer?

Can you imagine the outcry is say Sarah Palin had said Assad was a reformer - can you imagine?

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"Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he's a reformer." – Hillary Clinton on Bashar al-Assad, March 27. Few things said by this administration in its two years can match this one for moral bankruptcy and strategic incomprehensibility.
First, it's demonstrably false. It was hoped that President Assad would be a reformer when he inherited his father's dictatorship a decade ago. Being a London-educated eye doctor, he received the full Yuri Andropov treatment – the assumption that having been exposed to Western ways, he'd been westernized. Wrong. Assad has run the same iron-fisted Alawite police state as did his father..................
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