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Subscribe to RSSRebels and regime forces continue their fight to control Syria's largest city. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports.
Heavy explosions shook the Syrian capital Saturday and helicopters circled overhead as rebels appeared to be renewing their offensive in the city, witnesses and activists said.
The fresh battles show that President Bashar Assad's victories could be fleeting as armed opposition groups regroup and resurge, possibly forcing the regime to shuffle military units to react to attacks across the country.
The country's civil war has intensified in recent weeks as rebels focused on the country's two biggest cities, Damascus and Aleppo.
"We heard heavy bombing since dawn," a witness in Damascus told The Associated Press, asking that his name not be used out of fear for his personal safety. "Helicopters are in the sky."
The fighting in Damascus appeared likely to drain the army's resources as fighting stretches into its second week in Aleppo, 215 miles to the north.
UN General Assembly condemns Syrian regime; Russia and China balk
A Reuters witness reported that a Syrian army helicopter fired machinegun rounds on Aleppo Saturday.
Goran Tomasevic / Reuters
Smoke rises over the Salaheddine neighborhood in central Aleppo during clashes between Free Syrian Army fighters and Syrian Army soldiers Saturday.
Syrian troops also fired artillery shells to break through the rebels' frontline in the battleground district of Salaheddine.
"There is one helicopter and we're hearing two explosions every minute," a Reuters reporter said.
In Salaheddine, rebels from the Free Syria Army hid in alleyways, dodging the Syrian army's bullets and tank rounds that struck a building in the district.
Saturday's violence comes only two weeks after the government crushed a rebel run on Damascus that included incursions by fighters into downtown neighborhoods and an audacious bomb attack that killed four members of Assad's inner circle.
Late Friday, Syria's official news agency SANA said government forces had hunted down the remnants of the "terrorist mercenaries" — its term for the rebels — in the capital's southern neighborhood of Tadamon. It said several were killed and many others wounded.
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Syria's uprising began in March 2011 with mostly peaceful protests against the regime, but the conflict has transformed into a civil war. Activists say 19,000 people have been killed.
In villages across Syria there is great concern for the city of Aleppo, where the violence seen in the last few days could be nothing compared to what's coming. NBC's Richard Engel reports.
As the fighting grinds on, Syria reached out to its powerful ally Russia on Friday. Senior Syrian officials pleaded with Moscow for financial loans and supplies of oil products — an indication that international sanctions are squeezing Assad's regime.
Syria is thought to be burning quickly through the $17 billion in foreign reserves that the government was believed to have at the start of Assad's crackdown.
Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil, who has led a delegation of several Cabinet ministers to Moscow over the past few days, told reporters Friday that they requested a Russian loan to replenish Syria's hard currency reserves, which have been depleted by a U.S. and European Union embargo on Syrian exports.
UN: 200,000 civilians flee fierce fighting in Syria commercial hub
Russia has protected Syria from U.N. sanctions and continued to supply it with weapons throughout the conflict. The Kremlin, backed by fellow veto-wielding U.N. Security Council member China, has blocked any plans that would call on Assad to step down.
On Saturday, China said the West that should be blamed for obstructing diplomatic and political efforts to restore order and peace in Syria.
Wang Kejian, a deputy director of north African and west Asian affairs at the Chinese Foreign Ministry, told a news conference that Western countries had hindered and sabotaged the political process by advocating regime change.
Wang reiterated China's stance that the solution to the Syria crisis should be a political one and that it is opposed to any military intervention.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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to the muslims brothers point your guns at the stupid russians and the chink chinese
Good luck with that, If the USA won't mess with them that should tell you something. If you get the all three mad at you there won't be anywhere to hide or buy weapons from.
Obama help the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, now they are sleeping in the White House even they are still in the list of terrorist groups friend of the government of Iran, good job. Obama is sending intelligence , weapons and drones to help the rebels in Syria involving in more wars without authorization from, Congress. According with some reports . Al-qaeda is helping the rebels too. Good team Mr. President
Have you ever read the Constitution? He doesn't need authorization to do any of that.
What is your problem if Russia and China get badly burnt by meddling in ME? Just examine Iraqi wars.
Followers of Islamic cult, especially Sunni Saudi inspired Islamic radicals and militants (al-Qaida, Salaffi, Wahhabi, MB and other label ones), are fast marching backwards to their seventh century desert tribal days.
Radical and terrorist Muslims, especially Sunni Muslims, use different labels in different places like their Trojan horses (moderate, liberal, secular, hate-Islam and so on) in our nations.
They are indulging in rapings, lootings, killings and genocides of non-Muslims (Darfur, S. Sudan, Nigeria and spreading like wild fire in many regions and Muslims (Mali, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other places.
Sunni Saudi backed Salaffi and MB new chapters are opening up in Egypt. Just watch the fate of Christians, women and Israel as the time goes by.
Even in Syria, if Assad is overthrown by Sunni Islamic religious Nazis like al-Qaida, MB, the conditions of Christians will be unbearable just like Iraq.
Are we not committing hara-kiri by supporting our enemies and killers?
Jeremiah the Prophet wrote about the last days.
Hamath (Hama today) and Arpad (north Alleppo) are confounded (sick over all that has happened)
Damascus is waxed Feeble......(Ultimately will become a ruinous heap as Isaiah puts it)
Fear has seized upon her....
Her young men shall fall in her streets....
ALL her men of war shall be cut off ...
Saith the LORD of hosts.
The Son of Gods return is near.
Do not be apart of the spirit of Antichrist.
@ buchumlai. Racism is neither flattering or productive in helping humanity resolve its problems it is pure ignorance! The United States has instigated the whole mess in Syria and has funded and armed the "rebels" who are Al Queda, jihadists, and hired mercenaries brought into the country. We have bombed over 65 countries in our short history as a country. In our 236 years as a country we have been at war for 215 of those years.
The USA is no longer a symbol of freedom and democracy it is a symbol of Imperialism and terror.
Folks this has been pre-planned for a while, Syria has been on the list for a long time and now their time has come up. Do you really want another unnecessary war? Do you want your children fighting for another corporate war? I keep adding General Clark’s admonition of America’s plan to take over the Middle East because it is playing itself out right in front of the world! This isn’t a necessary war!
General Wesley Clark: "America will take out 7 countries in 5 years"
According to Former NATO supreme allied commander, former presidential candidate and 4 star US General Wesley Clark that they had received a memo that America is going to take out 7 countries in the Middle East starting with Iraq, Libya, Syria Lebanon Sudan, Somalia, and finally Iran. It is amazing that even if it is taking longer than originally planned, how these things that were planned years ago are being achieved in front of our eyes.
Folks, haven’t we spread enough blood shed and death around the world? This isn’t a necessary war!
Why blame the Russians? They tried to fix the problem, but the arabs and whatever wouldn't let them. I wonder what would have happened if they had won? And didn't the ko-may-nee start this by making women slaves to their country and husbands? Just wondering!
It's all hogwash! The arabs will never stop believing in a separation of religion and state. Not for 1000 more years. They get smarter, but are brainwashed, and so get deadlier. What a waste of a life.
The Russians really have to make a decision here and thay can't win no matter what decision they make.
1) Putin has heavily invested in his "friend" Assad. Just as W wnet out on a limb for Putin, Putin has done the same for Assad. The problem is that the last election has given rise to considerable unrest in Russia and a lot of that unrest is taking the form of anti-Putin protests. The Syrian troubles just fuel those protesters.
2) Putin is especially invested in that Russia's only overseas military base (the US has over 2,000) is in Syria. This is important because Turkey, a NATO country, controls the access to the Black Sea. The major warm water fleet the Russians have is the Black Sea Fleet. It is nominally under joint Ukranian-Russian control, but is actually under Russioan control. In the event of hostilities, the Black Sea Fleet would either be bottled up in the Black Sea or kept out of the Black Sea. The base at Targus would allow them to refuel, re-arm, and refit without having to transit the Bosphorus and Dardenelles. Lose the base and Putin loses most of the value of the Black Sea Fleet.
3) There is a huge power vacuum in Lebanon, caused by constant Syrian and Israeli interference in their internal politics. This was starting to sort itself out somewhat, but events in Syria are likely to recreate a power vacuum in Lebanon, right on Israel's doorstep. This would leave Israel with borders that they could only really expect the Jordanians to respect. The whole point of Israeli expansionism was not to enlarge their territory (though settlers have changed the agenda somewhat) but to shorten their actual borders so they had at least some chance of surviving the kind of situation that could well be developing --- a hostile Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt at the same time as Palestinian troubles.
4) The Chinese are anxious not to burn any bridges, even tiny bridges, to any country that might supply them oil in the future. China's whole economy depends on imported oil, much in the same way that Japan depended on imports of raw materials prior to WWII. Once the Chinese see support for Assad as more like "burning bridges" than not, they will drop their support. Until then they try to be every oil-producing country's friend.
5) Assad will lose, likely sooner rather than later, because he has made this a war of attrition. He has around 20% or the people and the rebels 80%. The two groups that support Assad are hated minorities --- Alawite Shiites and Christians --- who have tortured and killed the Sunni majority for decades. The Christians made a seriously bad choice when they sided with Assad decades ago. And they will pay dearly for that choice. Every time Assas loses a soldier, or a helicopter or a tank or fires a buillet, that loss cannot be replaced. He apparently, at maximum effort, can almost, but not quite, control both Damascus and Aleppo, but has to give up all of the countryside in the process. He drives the rebels from place to place, but the rebels grow in strength while Assad ends up winning battles, but slowly losing the war.
I love how Arabs blame ALL of their problems on either the Israelis or the US. Seems very childish to not take any responsibility whatsoever for your own situation in this world.
all is fun and game's till your friend's become terrorist
Russia and China opposing the "West", sounds more like a replay of the cold war every day.
Assad has killed too many of his own people ....
He'll never be able to lead that country anymore ....
sutter99: Rightly said!
Muslims kill each other and then put the blame on Zionist and US conspiracies.
Also each sect of Islamic religious warriors, expect Amerika to help them too.
Syrian rebels and their refugees have also asked: "where is Amerika?", "why Amerika is not helping?" and so on.
In Pakistan, this is quite common.
Rest of the time: "Down with Amerika", "Down with Israel" "Death to Amerika", "Death to Zionists" and so on.
Here all the Islamic religious Nazis of different brands, sects and tribes join hands. Just look at the polls in Muslim nations and their marches now and then!
Here their Trojan horses working under different labels in our nations also join hands.
This story sounds more like Assad might have to dip into his off shore ( hidden ) accounts to hold on to power. What a shame he might have to use his ill gotten gains or run like a scared rabbit. He is to hot to handle, so I don't think any country will take him in.
ASSAD will have to stand next to romney, in line, to get his money. For flipper too, will be hidding!
Or maybe Romney can buy Syria and work his venture capital "magic" on turning around a business by hacking it apart.
Iran or Iraq will take Assad in. Iran will do it because they have been a long time Assad ally and are the only unopposed majority Shiite country. Iraq would do it because it would be a nice opportunity for the Shiite majority to take a slap at the Sunni minority. I would think that the basic arrangements have already been made. There is handwritign on the wall for those who can read it, including Assad's supporters.
It doesn't matter which side wins in Syria, Romney will take credit for it.... He's good at taking credit for things he didn't or blaming others for things he did do...... He's a serial liar.
China and Russia are huge countries where he could live his life without persecution.
My heart goes out to the people fighting there, We know the feeling. We here, are under attack also. I guess we will soon have to fight the republican party, in the same way. To bad, for this world was moving ever so close to total peace.
What world do you live in?
melvin .... come to the light, put down that pipe and admit you have a problem. That is the first step toward getting that monkey off your back. good luck. We'll be here when you decide to get real.
Without a doubt, the most divisive POTUS (of wealth and skin color) the nation has ever (will ever?) know, and Melvin claims it's republicans who are the problem. Good grief. I don't even know how to respond to such a ridiculous comment.
rnelson302 and STexan
Obviously conservanuts have NO sense of humor when the rocks are thrown at their glass houses. Maybe somewhere Mittens tax returns are also under glass.
Be careful (be VERY careful) because when you start referring to President Obama's racial background (especially in forgetting his Caucasian mother) or his earned wealth from book royalties (rather than spoiled inheritance) your blind bigotry and conservanut gullibility become evident.
What total BS! It is the Muslim in the White House who is blood brother to the MB, and Al Qaeda. While his harpy witch, Clinton stirs the cauldron all over the ME.
They are all playing their parts in the Final Drama as planned.
Once it comes to Israel, it will be a replay of the scene in Raiders of the Lost Arc, where the Nazis opened the lid of the Arc.
You need to brush up on some background information about our POTUS. Start with his connections to Valerie Jarrett. Then look at Saul Alinsky and his writings. He advocated economic and racial division as a way to subdue the US into accepting communism, but with a twist. Hilary was a disciple of his in her college days.
They are all connected to this day. They are following the script perfectly and you still think it is Dems and Reps against each other! Laughable if it were not so pathetic. You have been duped and are nothing more than a stooge in a passion play for your life! Better get hip to it before it is too late!
sounds like NoBama and Stexan went to one too many grateful dead concerts.
nope! never went to a Dead Concert. Can't stand 'em!
STexan, exactly what does the "color of skin" of the president have to do with anything? After all Herman Cain is way "darker" isn't he? How about Michael Steele or Condi Rice? Claude Allen? Ron Christe? Allen Keyes? Colin Powell? Clarence Thomas? J.C.Watts? Allen West?
Closer to peace? What peace? You had better take off those rose-colored glasses you have on.
And never forget that the Mittster had SIX, count'em SIX, grandmothers. That is a huge number of too-small sweaters at Christmas.
It's funny though, one reads news reports from across the globe and these "rebels" are actually called "west-sponsored terrorists". Here the media paints them as "freedom fighters" who are putting up a fight with sticks and rocks, yet they are clearly seen with shoulder-rockets walking about like nothing. I wonder what the U.S. govt would do if a couple of thousand "rebels" decided to overthrow the govt?...would it just cease power like it's asking Assad to do? Last time I checked, when the hippies in the 60s tried something similar, they were brutally repressed and jailed up. America, America, the land of hypocrisy.
We found out in 1863. It would be a lot easier today, They are not going to give up their power no matter what it costs the people.
I'm sure what you said makes sense to you, one! Which side in this is the "hippies", though? The Russian gvt is supporting Assad, so they get to feel like a real "super power" again. So, we can trust them to have an objective view, on who the "good guys" are! I know they'd be my first choice, as an info source!
big ed-1492169
The other difference is that a lot of the motivation for the 60's anti-war demonstrations was as an excuse to get stoned and laid. (I know. I was there.) Those demonstrations not only were NOT effective in ending the obscenities of the Vietnam War, but actually contributed to Nixon getting elected by their embarrassing Humphrey. The election of Nixon/Kissinger not only likely prolonged the war for six more years but resulted in the unnecessary deaths of an additional 28,000 American soldiers.
At least with Bush #43's War of Retribution against Saddam we only had about 4,000 American lives lost.
Interesting view. So violent. The Woman's right to vote, civil rights, and gay rights movements never happened in your America. Reason trumps in the end. Peace is better than war, and freedom is better than slavery. The question is do you want to live in a stunted land. Be happy, lose the bigotry.
Assad like Gaddafi has the backing of a minority. His relaxation of tyranny, voting, is a bit late and countered by slaughtering towns and cities. It's just a matter of time before the majority organize and bring his end. At best he wins the civil war, like Iran a few years ago, and continues to be isolated like Iran/N Korea. Over time the world moves on and Syria falls far behind in living standards ... poorer. He eventually dies and history condemns him for running down his nation. He has no upside in this, but, it's his call.
Nixon also opened trade with China in secret, meeting with George Romney as a consultant. They both had big plans for Mitt, they sent him to France for a couple years and then had him start outsourcing jobs to China. It was the perfect plan started by the Republicans. Just take the name Bain for example, it was from the original planning members Bush, Agnew, Ike, Nixon.
Hey if the RWJN can make up conspiracies why not make up our own sh*t too.
This country needs to feel a lot of pain for the misery and hell we have rained on the mideast people and we did it all for demonic inbred israelis
I think you will find that it was more for control of middle east oil . Also for the benefit of the military / industrial complex . But like you I feel Israel had a hand in this mess also. But to a lesser extent than you think.
American control of middle east oil? We went over there, saved their ass from eventual ethnic cleansing [for the time being] and left. Last I checked we didn't seize control of any oil or oil fields. Your comment is stupid, at best. But I guess you'd rather be paying $12.00 gallon for gas because control of the Iraqi oil fields and the Hormuz straight was handed over to a handful of Islamist leaders who have no purpose in life other than to destroy Western economies? That's brilliant.
Demonic Israelis? Really? So, you'd rather have 2 dozen radical Islamists move into your neighborhood than 2 dozen "radical" jews? Wow. What's it like to live that far removed from reality?
STexan
Please go back to cow tipping !!!!
He who controls the flow of oil controls the world and fixes the price per barrel . What the Bush administration was trying to do is this . Place a string of military bases along the golf . That gives us a strong hand in the area along with the big oil boys strong arming those countries to give us a much lower price per barrel than anyone else. This whole mess is all about GREED & GLUTTONY nothing more nor anything less.
bob1/28 Please tell me what specific person is controlling the flow of oil on this planet? If you look at the Straight, 40% of the worlds oil is transported that's true- but its NOT where the US gets much oil from. Your rhetoric is old and proven false- there was never an oil pipeline built from Iraq to the White House as anti-establishment & ant-government pinheads always spouted was the cause. Neither was there any oil gained from helping Libya or Saudi. Sometimes the real reason IS the obvious one and not the one received from tinfoil hat antennas. But if you knew ANYTHING about world economics or oil you would know that already.
uka-2327001
You are only partially correct. It is the 20% of the Israelis (the ultra-Orthodox) that are in-bred.
K.
Please go back and reread my posting.
Bush and his boys were looking to influence those governments in the middle east. Kind of like a mob shake down racket. You know be nice and play the game our way or who knows what might happen . If they would not play along . Then maybe a new leader will appear on the job. Much the same as we have been doing in South America for many years now.
Nice to see a true anti Semite here this morning. May your hatred consume you soon.
that statement could only come from a talmud trained jew The talmud is the biggest hate filled perverted book ever written. I am pro american and the jews on wall st and tel aviv are the biggest threat we along with the world face
The problem with Middle East oil conspiracy theories is that the US has always been self-sufficient in oil or very close to it. In 2010 and 2011, for examples the US was a net exporter of oil. Most of our imported oil comes from Canada and Mexico is next. These are countries about which we don't generally have to worry about cutting off oil supplies. A very distant third is Venezuela which is only imported bycause Chavez owns Citgo lock stock and refinery. Then comes Africa from which we get far more oil than the Middle East.
If the US, Canada, and Mexico were to form an oil cartel. And that oil cartel had one simple rule -- no oil can be exported until the entire needs of the US, Canada and Mexico are satisfied first. And the price of gasoline was based on the cost of production. Gasoline would be less than a dollar a gallon at the pump. The shell game that the oil companies play is to export so much oil (at world prices) that we have to import oil (at world prices.) They then use this as justification for pricing oil at the world price instead of the cost of production. But the bottom line is still that we don't need Middle Eastern oil at all, or even African oil. So if our politicians and military were to dumb to look at the import-export numbers and came up with some sort of oil-based military adventurism in the Middle East, they are waaaay bigger idiots than I think they are.
What the hell is wrong with these petty tyrants that they don't leave when the going is good? If it's that obvious that people hate you, the wise thing to do is to give up and leave. I guess the mentality is that the country belongs to them and it's like a kid having a toy taken away. They throw a hissy fit. I guess things came to these dictators too easily and the idea that your only source of money (and lots of it) is about to be taken away is enough to override common sense. Come to think of it, that sounds about like the people we have in Congress.
jim allyn you are right about 20% of israelis are inbred and they are the rabbis who say gentiles are here to serve us and kill the babies of our enemies control the policy of pissrael and they are the same pharisee rabbis that got pontius pilate to kill Jesus
I think we are a little too BIASED..in favor of the ISRAELIS. We should deal with MIDDLE EAST problems, EVEN HANDEDLY.....and listen to the PALESTINIAN side of the story. They might have something to say that could make sense.
Why we consider "poor Israel" a lone "voice in the desert" crying for DEMOCRACY, is something I will never understand. Let's use AMERICAN "fair play" and try to listen to "the other side" for a change.
Are we "anti-Muslim" in this world, and "consider" them to be TERRORISTS.......continually? There is GOOD and BAD in everyone. "Not all Muslims are TERRORISTS......and not all TERRORISTS are MUSLIM."
Could THAT be something they are trying to tell us?
At long last !!!!
A voice of reason and common sense . It is a shame your voice will not be heard or listened to. To many companies, and private people making to much money from this mess. But don't give up the fight as someday maybe cooler heads will prevail.
@Ralph: I agree with you. Our Middle East policy is all about oil and Israel. I understand that. However, we need to remember there are flesh and blood people living there. If we took a poll throughout the ME, we would see the vast majority of those people want the same things we do; peace, harmony with their neighbors, a government that cares and provdes for its people, job secrity, gender equality, health care, a good education, a dependable retirement.
The terrorists are a minority, yet regimes and our foreign policy, and not just America's policy toward the ME, but Russia and China as well, allow those terrorists to gain a foothold playing on the fears and needs of the people in that region. Should terrorist bring down Assad, then what would they deliver? Nothing, for they have nothing to offer. Terrorists have no interest or experience in nation building, We have that experience, yet, we seem to forget, or outright neglect, the fact that flesh and blood wanting what we want is involved.
Could we man up, overthrow the regime and help these people? Yes, we did something similar under the Marshall Plan while the then USSR could do nothing but sit back and let it happen. It worked then, I know that does not mean it will work now, but we have a blueprint that is worth trying.
Let me just add this, we must not go it alone. Europe can get more involved. Yes,Europeans will say they are suffering an economic crisis. Well, aren't we? Europe can express their gratitude for a Marshall Plan by doing for others what was once done for them.
Sorry for ten minute lecture.
We have listened. Their side is they want all Israeli Jews dead without compromise and they want land that was never theirs for a nation that never existed.
no
hey stexan $12 a gallon gas if we do not destroy the mideast??? you are demented ever since 1972 when gas was 29 cents and the arabs shut it off being we saved the israelis from defeat and it went to $2 we have had a jew tax on oil costing us trillons . Oil was $25 a barrel before bush invaded iraq after 9-11 and it went to $100. I would rather no one but white europeons live next to me but in a state like texas where whites are a minority (yeah real tough texans mostly good at talk) I could see your point. modern texans have no right talking tough being they have pissed on the graves of those who fought at the Alamo
You make many good points; our country has been taken from us.
thank you bewlidered you are not bewildered lol
I guess @stexan dies not realize that this country is a net oil exporter. Period. That means that in 2010 and 2011, as examples, the US exported more oil than it imported. Even when we import it comes from Canada and Mexico. How is trouble in the Middle East going to effect this except as American and British oil companies screw consumers?
Cracks me up [ Chinese say the west has hindered and sabotaged the political process and should be solved by a political one ] funny how communist and socialists blame everybody else for their short comings ! sounds like the leader of the greatest nation in the world doesn't it !!!
Critical times hard to deal with, will be here.
What a bunch of cowards Shiites are? They talk big, act big and show their bravery before unarmed minorities like Jews, women and others. Then they add their dances when they stone them.
Shiites of Iraq should side with Kurds and should stop oil supplies to Turkey for supporting the Sunni Islamic extremists like al-Qaida, MB in Syria.
Shiites of Bahrain should overthrow their autocratic, corrupt and despotic Sunni ruler.
As they have been taking blows and killings by Sunnis, these Sunnis are able to act as they like to Shiites.
Shiites of Iran should side with Assad and see that all the Sunni rebels are eliminated.
What are the brave Hezbollah doing?
They should do suicide bombings in Mecca and Medina. Or else Shiites genocides just like the genocides of non-Muslims by the Sunni Islamic religious Nazis will continue.
and you should be their leader instead of shouting your missives from cyberspace
you sound like a mad Muslim
MSN, I've got to ask you something. On C-Span, maybe about two weeks ago, a spokeswoman for the White House, swore that the Russians were stopped from supplying weapons to Assad. Yet, today, your article clearly states that Russia has been, and is still, arming Assad's regime. Who's right on this account?
http://www.trumpetsounds.com/isaiah17.html
prophecy unfolding, Christ is the way through grace and truth, mercy the Lamb of God the door to salvation...watch out for false Christs and religions which fail to deliver the promised land. Jesus is the Way-truth and life---no one comes to the Father but through Lord Christ
Oh go home.
oh blow it out your exhaust pipe numbskull
Roger White You are right buddy , Europe in bad shape now ,so they decided to go back to their old ways of attacking small countries and steal their wealth , that's is the fastest way in recovery for them , It does not matter how they do it and how many people will die in the process , the Europeans are burden on us , we go to war with them , we finance the war with the help of these no good gulf states that want to be a power in the world and Europe ends up with all the loot . just like they did in Iraq , Libya , Sudan and most of Africa , why England and fiance still have colonies in South America , what can ties they got that far from their lands , and now in Syria , they are getting paid by these no good Gulf states ( Saudis , Qataris , and Bahrain ) to start trouble in Syria , 1) they are helping us and Israel of taking out the only ally of Iran in that region , mind that Iran is no threat to us or anybody , Iran just like Saddam they are threatening and showing their strength to keep Israel and the US of attacking them , just like they did in Iraq , 2) the Saudis and Qataris see an opportunity to get rid of Assad ( the only Shiite Muslim ruler in that part of the world , and he favor the Christians and let live in peace , and that's against the Wahhabi Muslims ways ) 3) they are using our enemy Alqaida and the Muslim extremists to do that and convinced us in training and arming these thugs , 4) Turkey have an interest in stealing some more of Syria's land the rich land of Syria , and they figured the Europeans will help them , just like they did after WW2 and gave the best part of Syria ,. so you see it's a big conspiracy and they Syrians are not lying about that , all you have to do is watch the UN meetings and see how they are supporting the peace plans and they turn around and arm these thugs and order them to kill and murder the innocent Syrians .
huh?
u lost me dude after about the 3rd line. Do you even know what you are trying to say?
If you support the rebels in Syria, then you are supporting the Islamist takeover of Syria by the Muslim Brotherhood and other Muslim extremists, and you are also supporting the total destruction of Christians in Syria.
You couldnt be more correct.
And after that, the Christians in North America! Yahoo!
But forget the Muslims, they are even more stupid than Christians.
In a Reuters article today, it is described how the rebels are beginning to try to exercise control and some Sharia law in the parts of Aleppo they hold.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/04/us-syria-crisis-rebels-idUSBRE8730BZ20120804
I think Obama should get another Nobel piece prize.
Syrian rebels??? Dont they mean Muslim Brotherhood. Bacause that is who they are. And if Assad falls they will be in charge. Check out their mission statement before you throw support their way.
If the people of Syria want the Muslim Brotherhood in charge then who are we to say it's wrong?
"Programs, get your programs". It's hard to tell who the good guys and who the bad guys are over there. All I know is that if we weren't involved in that part of the world, that part of the world would blow itself up.
I'm getting tired of everything that's happening across the whole world. Stop this planet and let me off!
LOL yesterday the article was how the rebels were weak and low on resources. This is exactly what the media does to blur and distort the truth. Confuse us. One day the economy is good the next it's not. One day the rebels are in trouble the next launching a massive attack on the Capital. LOL.
You want the truth, the CIA funds the Al Qaeda rebels in Syria just like they did in Libya. I thought Al Qaeda was the enemy! It's a joke and we all take this madness. Wake up to the stench that is the US communist lead Government. Our country is no longer free from tyranny, it is in fact infested with it.
Patriots will prevail.
It hardly matters what Assad does, the rebels will retreat, regroup and attack in different places and the military cannot react quickly enough to destroy them. The rebels are wearing down the government forces and their equipment far more quickly than Assad or the Syrian military can repair or replace lost equipment. With the embargo in place. Syria cannot win this war. As General Bradley once said to a WWII Commander "forget the cheese, get out of the trap" Better for Assad to find a way out before it passes the point of no return.
Anyone who is against Russia and China then I am on there side. Regardless of what happens Isreal is in a bad spot...............US and Iseral has to stick together.
Right, in realpolitik the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Assad is allied with Iran, Russian & China therefore it is natural that the U.S. would aid those trying to overthrow him. When the Taliban were fighting the Soviets in the 80's they were our freind. If the Syrian rebels win hopefully they will remember the help the U.S. gave them.
I (a hawkish conservative), would feel no need to be involved in the Middle East at all if they would stop exporting their terrorism to us and our allies. As far as oil, my guess is that market forces would take care of that part. I don't see even those who don't like us not wanting to sell to us (the 70's embargo notwithstanding).
So let them kill each other to their Islamofascist delight. I really don't care as long as they leave us the hell out of it. Fewer a-holes in the Middle East to hate us and work against us and our allies.
those that want to nuke and fight. Get your asses down to the recruiting office and join up! stop it. we know your really oil execs trying your best to raise oil prices with baiting decent people into aurgumments. calling people names so they write crazy answers. then show these responses to your lobbyists to show congressmen how bad the public wants us to bomb Iran. Get off the oil and fossil fuels like Germany did. you dont see them going to war for oil! germany has free healthcare pays less taxes than americans everyone gets 6 weeks paid vacation and each german gets the pension when they retire. No lawyers clogging up the courts and locking up the population to profit corperate america. I forgot to tell you. no one can get kicked out of their home no matter what. Germany kept the american blueprint and we took up the Mafia blueprint. "Wass a matta, evwee body pays insurance here. for everything" "no insurance,?? We gotta break a leg to sow we mean bidnets!"
what about the Iranians trying to get rid of their islamist yokes. not all Iranians want war. I think most Iranians are screwed with the same bigshots running their country. Our bigshots are richer and want that Iranian Oil and will get you crazy to get it.So keep feeding these oil barons with nonsense. Imagen a Nuke war. You wont have a car to drive through a cloudy wasteland. Or the oil to run it. it will all be on fire. If they set a nuke in Irans oil field its the end of everything. dont wish so hard> you might get what you wish for!