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Asma al-Assad: A Rose in the Desert
http://www.vogue.com/ ^ | 2/25/2011 | Joan Juliet Buck

Posted on 03/19/2012 6:26:56 PM PDT by BO Stinkss

Asma al-Assad is glamorous, young, and very chic—the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies. Her style is not the couture-and-bling dazzle of Middle Eastern power but a deliberate lack of adornment. She’s a rare combination: a thin, long-limbed beauty with a trained analytic mind who dresses with cunning understatement. Paris Match calls her “the element of light in a country full of shadow zones.” She is the first lady of Syria. Syria is known as the safest country in the Middle East, possibly because, as the State Department’s Web site says, “the Syrian government conducts intense physical and electronic surveillance of both Syrian citizens and foreign visitors.” It’s a secular country where women earn as much as men and the Muslim veil is forbidden in universities, a place without bombings, unrest, or kidnappings, but its shadow zones are deep and dark.

(Excerpt) Read more at presidentassad.net ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assad
Last year, Syria's First Lady Asma al-Assad was the darling of New York's trend-setting editors at Vogue magazine and libs like Angelia Jolie and Brad pitt. Vogue described her in a fawning profile as a "rose in the desert."

Recently leaked e-mails show her full support of her husband's murderous ways. I wonder if Brad and Angelina are ashmed now.

1 posted on 03/19/2012 6:27:02 PM PDT by BO Stinkss
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To: BO Stinkss

The vogue article has since been pulled.


2 posted on 03/19/2012 6:32:18 PM PDT by BO Stinkss
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To: BO Stinkss

I am a regular reader of Vogue. But anyone who takes its pretensions of political insight and analysis seriously is making a critical mistake. The editors are amoral, knee-jerk left-wing morons who think Hillary and Huma are superior beings. Vogue’s attempts to be taken seriously about anything but fashion are laughable. I just look at the fabulous photographs and let it go at that.


3 posted on 03/19/2012 6:37:37 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: BO Stinkss

I understand she enjoys internet shopping while her long-necked husband downloads his fav iTunes. All the while his men are busy using Tulip Mortars and T-62s on the “rebels.” A perfect couple...Bill and Hellary on steroids.


4 posted on 03/19/2012 6:38:06 PM PDT by donozark (We're ALL Greeks now...)
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To: BO Stinkss
Not guilty or I'd hit hit it...which ever you prefer:


5 posted on 03/19/2012 6:41:46 PM PDT by BreezyDog (PLAN A: A Peaceful Restoration of the Republic.....PLAN B: A Restoration of the Republic)
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To: donozark

She is a little skinny for my taste, but definite’y a beauty.

She won’t look so good hanging upside down beside her husband.


6 posted on 03/19/2012 6:42:53 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Venturer

SOON

7 posted on 03/19/2012 6:57:32 PM PDT by Haiku Guy ("The problem with Internet Quotes is that you never know if they are real" -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: BO Stinkss

Talk about plasma up your Asma!


8 posted on 03/19/2012 7:08:06 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: BO Stinkss

Yeah so much better if she cheered on for the islamic extremists..


9 posted on 03/19/2012 8:26:58 PM PDT by hannibaal
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To: BO Stinkss

The link from this posting is still there. Mrs. Assad is a sweety, like Ilse Koch, the Bitch of Buchenwald.


10 posted on 03/19/2012 8:59:03 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: BO Stinkss
Proper ridicule:


"Let them eat humus." -- Asma al-Assad


11 posted on 03/19/2012 10:17:01 PM PDT by rantblogger
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To: La Lydia

I see your point, but that’s the thing about liberals: They are completely tone-deaf to anything that hasn’t been made fun of on The Daily Show. If Jon Stewart doesn’t hate it, it must be okay. That’s really how they think.


12 posted on 03/19/2012 10:25:40 PM PDT by denydenydeny (The more a system is all about equality in theory the more it's an aristocracy in practice.)
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