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Bashar Assad: The Evil Moron Who's Running Syria
Slate ^
| 3/16/05
| Chris Suellentrop
Posted on 03/15/2005 11:59:02 AM PST by gridlock
Link only.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: assad; chinless; syria
Link only. I don't think we are permitted to post even excerpts from Slate
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posted on
03/15/2005 11:59:03 AM PST
by
gridlock
To: gridlock
You mean EVIL DENTIST!............
2
posted on
03/15/2005 12:05:45 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(The South seceded over refusal to end slavery. Blue states want to secede for the same reason......)
To: Red Badger
No, he's an EVIL OPTHAMOLOGIST!!!
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posted on
03/15/2005 12:08:16 PM PST
by
gridlock
(ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
To: gridlock
When Assad came to power in June 2000, one week after the death of his father, Hafez Assad, many hoped that his ties to the West—the two years in London he spent training to become an ophthalmologist, his facility with English, his British-born Syrian wife—would make him a different kind of dictator. He was part of what Slate dubbed the "Arab Brat Pack," young rulers that were thought to be earnest technocrats, not ideological demagogues.It is entirely possible here that Junior is a neophyte politically, and a gross incompetent administratively, and that smarter and more competent oppressors are calling the shots and pulling the strings in Assad's government.
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posted on
03/15/2005 12:08:29 PM PST
by
My2Cents
(America is divided along issues of morality, between the haves and the have-nots.)
To: gridlock
No, he's an EVIL FERRET!
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posted on
03/15/2005 12:09:51 PM PST
by
mewzilla
(Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
To: gridlock
Evil chinless opthamologist!
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posted on
03/15/2005 12:13:06 PM PST
by
Quilla
To: Quilla
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posted on
03/15/2005 12:13:58 PM PST
by
mewzilla
(Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
To: Quilla
I'm trying to think of a torture, similar to the "Is it safe...?" in Marathon Man. "Which is better, 1 or 2? 1 or 2?..."
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posted on
03/15/2005 12:15:19 PM PST
by
gridlock
(ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
To: My2Cents
It is entirely possible here that Junior is a neophyte politically, and a gross incompetent administratively, and that smarter and more competent oppressors are calling the shots and pulling the strings in Assad's government. My theory exactly. This guy may be little more than a figurehead.
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posted on
03/15/2005 12:16:18 PM PST
by
Paradox
(Occam was probably right.)
To: gridlock
Well, at least he's not an EVIL PROCTOLOGIST!........
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posted on
03/15/2005 12:17:38 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(The South seceded over refusal to end slavery. Blue states want to secede for the same reason......)
To: gridlock
The word moron is too good a name for Assad.
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posted on
03/15/2005 12:18:21 PM PST
by
youngtory
(Rights are rights are rights. Just like a proof is a proof is a proof.-Liberal dorks.)
To: gridlock
Option "A" or Option "B".
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posted on
03/15/2005 12:23:40 PM PST
by
Quilla
To: Red Badger
Evil proctologist is redundant!
To: My2Cents
"Junior is a neophyte politically, and a gross incompetent administratively, and that smarter and more competent oppressors are calling the shots and pulling the strings in Assad's government."
I think your right. We should be looking beyond Assad when dealing with Syria.
Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com
To: gridlock
No1 He's a pencil necked, ferret faced, halfwit!
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