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originally posted by: Shiloh7
a reply to: stumason
What gets me about this whole matter is that at no time have I seen on any foreign tv stations any Syrians demanding Assad go. Nothing until our government and the USA decided he was going. It was the same with Libya it was only once we and the USA decided Gaddafi had to go and of course we immediately armed his opponents, that civil war broke out there.
originally posted by: Shiloh7What gets me about this whole matter is that at no time have I seen on any foreign tv stations any Syrians demanding Assad go.
Libya - all started with the detention of a young human rights lawyer. Protests started in Benghazi over this, which then expanded into a general protest over their civil liberties and human rights under Gaddafi.
At no point, however, were any of the rebels armed by Western powers - they were armed, however, by Gulf states like Qatar
originally posted by: Nova937
a reply to: stumason
Let me correct you on a few things.
Libya - all started with the detention of a young human rights lawyer. Protests started in Benghazi over this, which then expanded into a general protest over their civil liberties and human rights under Gaddafi.
No, that was the media version of events. This was a part of a fabricated story to justify an attack on Libya.
At no point, however, were any of the rebels armed by Western powers - they were armed, however, by Gulf states like Qatar
originally posted by: Nova937
NATO armed the rebels. And who are NATO? US, UK, EU, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar etc.
originally posted by: Shiloh7
a reply to: stumason
I see from reading above you have been enlighten as to the propaganda we are fed to qualify our actions abroad - that is those we actually hear about.
originally posted by: Shiloh7
Libya was purely because Gaddafi wanted to create a new financial system not dependant on the US dollar for his oil exports. You threaten the rothschild dollar and you die. You can muster all sorts of excuses, but you are only buying into rothschild's government's propaganda and trying to make others believe it also.
originally posted by: Shiloh7
Doesn't it occur strange to you that we only go for oil rich country's leaders or Shia countries.
originally posted by: Shiloh7
a reply to: stumason
Funny how so many syrian sunni are not going to the biggest sunni country e.g. Saudi. Somnething they know that you don't?
originally posted by: Shiloh7
I see you didn't want to confront the actual facts I put up for you, so keep raving and believing, IMHO our government must love you, do you get perks, not being rude of course?
Syrians are used to a reasonably modern way of life and until the Civil War, religious denomination didn't play a major part in Syrian life. I highly doubt that many, if any, Syrians would want to move from a cosmopolitan, secular state to a strict, Wahhabi Sunni interpretation of the law in Saudi...
What, the ancient crap from years gone by - nothing new there and pointless going over it. You think you know something I don't, which you don't. I'm well aware of past activities of our Government and I don't recall ever actually defending the Government - something you seem intent to try and pin on me - I deal with the facts as they are, not speculation based on nonsense, which is what the last page or so has been about, with the other chap even blatantly lying and misrepresenting things.
‘UK Prime Minister David Cameron this week said “as a father I felt deeply moved” by the image of a Syrian boy dead on a Turkish beach. As pressure mounts on the UK to take in more of those fleeing to Europe from Syria and elsewhere. Cameron added that the UK would fulfil its “moral responsibilities.”
On hearing Cameron’s words on the role of ‘morality’, something he talks a lot about, anyone who has been following the crisis in Syria would not have failed to detect the hypocrisy. According to former French foreign minister Roland Dumas, Britain had planned covert action in Syria as early as 2009. He told French TV:
I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business… I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria. This was in Britain not in America. Britain was preparing gunmen to invade Syria.’