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  • Re: Bashar al-Assad, Syria and the Armenian people

    Originally posted by Federate View Post
    Motherf*ckers wanna talk about moral obscenity of chemical weapons use...
    At least Reagan didn't actually supply the chemical weapons. And the Bush/Blair faking of the evidence for Iraq's "weapons of Mass Destruction" didn't extend as far as actually smuggling in the weapons to plant or use inside the country so that they could be "discovered". Obama has outdone them all in that respect.
    Plenipotentiary meow!

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    • Re: Bashar al-Assad, Syria and the Armenian people

      Originally posted by bell-the-cat View Post
      At least Reagan didn't actually supply the chemical weapons. And the Bush/Blair faking of the evidence for Iraq's "weapons of Mass Destruction" didn't extend as far as actually smuggling in the weapons to plant or use inside the country so that they could be "discovered". Obama has outdone them all in that respect.
      Bush bothered to go to the UN and lie
      Obama doesn't even care for their opinion

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      • Re: Bashar al-Assad, Syria and the Armenian people

        In this case, the US has sent its ambassador to the UN on multiple UN Security Council meetings in attempts to condemn Syria and currently, there's a debate in the UNSC involving possible authorisation of military action. All UNSC resolution have up to this point been vetoed by Russia & China. Not that it matters anyway, they can just bypass the UN if they want.

        The US national interest in Syria seems to be a prolonged conflict where Syria is weakened to the point that it becomes defenseless. Assad is their enemy and they want him gone but not without a complete degradation of Syrian military capabilities. This is why the upcoming intervention is described as a "limited" strike that intends to take out Syria's chemical weapons and long range fighting capabilities (airfields, SCUDs, command centres etc). Why those? Well the other "national" interest of the US is the security of Israel.
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          Ethnic Armenians In Syria Brace For Missile Strikes

          As the United States and its allies lay plans for what many believe will be a sustained missile strike inside Syria, the sizable ethnic Armenian community in that country is bracing for the worst but carrying on with daily life. Some say the Armenian government should be doing more to help.


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          RFERL loses a lot of credibility when it doesn't allow its writers to use the words Armenian Genocide

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             The US military by the admission of Secretary of State John Kerry is for sale and can do the bidding of any state willing to pay the cost for any military adventure even if such military action constitutes war crimes. “The US regime” is nothing but a war criminal regime.  This shameless government accuses others …


            John Kerry: Arab Countries Have Offered to Pay the “Full Cost” of America’s War on Syria

            The US military by the admission of Secretary of State John Kerry is for sale and can do the bidding of any state willing to pay the cost for any military adventure even if such military action constitutes war crimes.

            “The US regime” is nothing but a war criminal regime.

            This shameless government accuses others of committing crimes, but the US is the first country to use nuclear weapons, raining death and destruction on innocent lives in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

            In Vietnam, the deployment of Agent Orange killed hundreds of thousands of innocent lives and created an environmental disaster for which Vietnam is still suffering.

            Then there is the use of depleted uranium weapons in Iraq.

            Where will it end?

            The US, supposedly a “democracy” is a renegade country. It commits genocide with impunity.

            American citizens cannot deny their collective responsibility because throughout the above mentioned wars, they have through their elected representatives in Congress and in the Senate approved and condoned the wanton slaughter of the innocent.

            Secretary of State John Kerry said Arab countries have offered to pay for a full invasion of Syria to oust President Bashar Assad.

            “With respect to Arab countries offering to bear costs and to assess, the answer is profoundly yes,” Kerry told the House Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing Wednesday, according to The Washington Post. “They have. That offer is on the table.”


            Kerry told Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) that Arab countries are willing to put up the full cost.

            “In fact, some of them have said that if the United States is prepared to go do the whole thing the way we’ve done it previously in other places, they’ll carry that cost,” Kerry said.

            “That’s how dedicated they are at this. That’s not in the cards, and nobody’s talking about it, but they’re talking in serious ways about getting this done.”

            “We’ve done it previously”.
            Where: Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq. That is the model of US intervention.
            Politics is not about the pursuit of morality nor what's right or wrong
            Its about self interest at personal and national level often at odds with the above.
            Great politicians pursue the National interest and small politicians personal interests

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            • Re: Bashar al-Assad, Syria and the Armenian people

              90 percent of Americans are against any Syrian intervention and can't do much about their gov actions.
              B0zkurt Hunter

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              • Re: Bashar al-Assad, Syria and the Armenian people

                We Say NO to War

                08-09-2013 18:29:01 | USA | Politics


                Two years ago, the Arab Spring blossomed, inspiring the
                poverty-stricken oppressed masses of the Arab nation to hope for a
                just society, built on Freedom and Democracy.

                Unfortunately, the use of brutal force and violence followed soon.
                For us, Armenians, a significant country like Syria became the theater
                of civil-wars. Other countries too, like the Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt
                with significant Armenian Diaspora communities are also victims of
                political instability.

                As a direct result of regional forces in violent competition, on one
                side the Shiite led by the Islamic Republic of Iran versus the Sunni
                led by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, then the Arab-Israeli
                battleground, further strained by Super-power proxy conflicts led by
                the United States of America and its Western allies against Russia and
                China, arming both sides, converting Syria into a blood-soaked Hell.

                The recent threats of military strikes against Syria, by the US and
                its Western allies have caused us, European Armenians, deep
                humanitarian concerns, as official wars can spread out, engulf whole
                regions, with incalculable and unpredictable evil consequences,
                producing more destruction of property, death by the hundred
                thousands, refugees by the millions; inconsolable grief, pain and
                suffering.

                We, the Assembly of Armenians of Europe, reject categorically and
                totally the war of warmongering and imperialist powers, and we join
                our voices to the chorus of peace-loving and democratic forces.

                The ultimate victim of War(s) is the human kind, the very human being
                itself as a species - those who foolishly profit from mankind's
                destruction are the Armament industry and the parasites that feed on
                it.

                We say NO, a thousand times No to War and Warmongering.

                Assembly of Armenians of Europe
                September 6, 2013
                Uppsala, Sweden



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                Hayastan or Bust.

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                • Re: Bashar al-Assad, Syria and the Armenian people

                  Interview with Assad
                  Hayastan or Bust.

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                  • Re: Bashar al-Assad, Syria and the Armenian people

                    Originally posted by Mos View Post
                    We are an easy scapegoat.
                    2 years later I respond. Sorry.

                    Christians in that region are not merely easy scapegoats. Arab secular nationalism is at its core a Christian Arab ideology that the more balanced and less fanatic Muslim populations, the various other sects, accepted and supported. Christians are a potent secularizing force, a progressive force to reckon with in the Arab world, and the forces who wish to see a backwards and Saudi-like medieval Middle-East want the Christians out.

                    Hence the lack of an Obama "Red Line" when it comes to absolute violations of all possible international laws, norms, statutes, standards, whatnot, such as in Maalulah and other Christian centers where Christians were beheaded, burned, raped, forced to convert at gunpoint or with threats to massacre their families, and so on. I'm sure this is covered in this forum, but it still deserves to be stated.
                    Last edited by hagopn; 09-20-2013, 08:54 PM.

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                    • Re: Bashar al-Assad, Syria and the Armenian people

                      FIERCE CLASHES BETWEEN KURDS AND ISIL IN ALEPPO, UAE EMIR KILLED

                      [ Part 2.2: "Attached Text" ]

                      Local Editor

                      The opposition UK-based Syrian Observatory reported fierce clashes
                      took place Wednesday evening between the Kurdish People's Protection
                      Units and militants of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Levant
                      in the region separating between Jenderes in Aleppo countryside and
                      the Atma area in rural Idlib province.

                      "An emir of ISIL was killed during clashes erupted in 'Aleppo State'
                      holding the Emirati nationality, amid continued sporadic clashes,"
                      the Observatory said.

                      ISIL gunmen have first attacked at dawn Tuesday two checkpoints for
                      the Kurd People's Protection Units, which provoked clashes between
                      the two sides and left several casualties in ISIL ranks.

                      The Syrian Opposition Observatory announced that the militants who
                      belong to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fractured
                      the Cross of a Roman Catholic church in the city of Raqaa.

                      The militants also erected ISIL flag on an Armenian church, which
                      lies near al-Rashid Park, after descending the Cross.

                      Recently, fierce clashes erupted between the ISIL, Al-Qaeda-affiliated
                      Al-Nusra Front terrorist group and the so-called free Syrian army
                      in the wake of disputes on power and control sharing over areas not
                      reclaimed so far by the Syrian army.

                      The Syrian national military launched a wide-scale military operation
                      in May 2013 in the country's main provinces to restore security and
                      release citizens from terrorist threats.

                      Syria was hit by a violent unrest since mid-March 2011, where the
                      Syrian government accuses foreign actors of orchestrating the conflict
                      by supporting the militant opposition groups with arms and money.



                      Source: Websites

                      26-09-2013 - 20:04 Last updated 26-09-2013 - 20:56 | 804 View

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                      Hayastan or Bust.

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