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uhnope

(6,419 posts) Mon Feb 1, 2016, 05:15 PM Feb 2016

Hey Pres. Assad, the children of Syria are washing dead on beaches. Any comments?

Strange how no one is asking him this, or even raising the question in the media. You can listen to full reports on the crisis without hearing the word "Assad" and never the word "Putin". It seems everyone is getting blamed except Assad and his most powerful backer as more children wash up this week.

WTF?

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Hey Pres. Assad, the children of Syria are washing dead on beaches. Any comments? (Original Post) uhnope Feb 2016 OP

Ask George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. guillaumeb Feb 2016 #1

First ask Lloyd George and Clemenceau LanternWaste Feb 2016 #3

An excellent response. guillaumeb Feb 2016 #4

ISIS and Boko Haram are both a result of the destruction of Iraq and Libya and polly7 Feb 2016 #2

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

1. Ask George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

Reply to uhnope (Original post)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 05:20 PM

Feb 2016

They started this when they invaded Iraq and Afghanistan to control Middle East oil and gas.

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)

3. First ask Lloyd George and Clemenceau

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 05:25 PM

Feb 2016

First ask Lloyd George and Clemenceau-- the authors and first signatories of the Sykes–Picot Accord which did more objective damage to the middle east in the long run than anything else in the post industrial world.

(A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948 by James Barr)

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

4. An excellent response.

Reply to LanternWaste (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 05:40 PM

Feb 2016

European colonialists setting up national boundaries so that Europe could continue stealing resources.

polly7

(20,582 posts)

2. ISIS and Boko Haram are both a result of the destruction of Iraq and Libya and

Reply to uhnope (Original post)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 05:23 PM

Feb 2016

the power vacuums left behind. Assad, as far as I know, never played a part in either. Syrian people are being terrorized and slaughtered by ISIS.

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