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Biden said what about Syria?

Ryan: "They're (Russia) still arming the man (Assad). Iran is flying flights over Iraq..

Biden: "And the opposition is being armed."

Holy crap. Why is this not being talked about? Were involved in basically what amounts to a proxy war apparently. This should be HUGE news. May be just another Biden epic slip of the tongue, but i doubt it. Besides, according to him he means what he says..

Update:

Gianfranco: You're right, he did not specifically implicate the United States. I can't say with certainty that the US is directly involved with arming the rebels. But i can almost guarantee that we are indirectly involved to some degree after that comment. Many in Syria and Saudi Arabia have ancestral connections so i can see how direct support could come from the Saudis, even though that has not been confirmed as far as i know. No way would the Saudis (or anyone else for that matter) announce to the world they are supplying the rebels with arms to overthrow their nation's government. And if it is the Saudis and only the Saudis, do you really think they would take an action like that without our blessing first? And if they did take unilateral action, that's absolutely damning as far as i'm concerned as it relates to foreign policy.

Update 2:

Sweet: Your post was so long and full of rambles i couldn't figure out what the point was.

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  • Andy
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    9 years ago
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    People tie the Arab spring to things: do not like, they fear, or they have interest in. Arab spring is where normal Arab people rebelled against corruption, discrimination, opportunistic, living under slavery of dictators and their families and relatives. Arab spring has nothing to do with the outside world or others outside the Arab states except oppositions living in exile/s. The Arab spring has nothing to do with religions and religious issues. Arabs, for the first time, were able through the web such as facebook and Twitter to organize large demonstrations against Dictators.

    Google: The Syrian Revolution (English) | Facebook - (Includes massacre’s photos)

    • First : (TUNISIA)

    Arab Spring started in Tunisia:

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi

    Google: mohamed bouazizi

    • Last : (SYRIA)

    Because of the extreme fear and intimidation Syrians lived with for 42 years. Under the same illegal, racial, criminal, most ugly regime in the world. The last Arab state that joined the Arab spring was Syria.

    The last uprising against this regime was in the 1982. Where the last Illegal president Hafez Assad and his brother killed 40.000 Syrians to appease them and destroyed the city of Hamah.

    Google : Hamah city,

    The current uprising started In the Syrian city of Dara’a on the border with Jordan. Where some kids, influenced by the TV’s news of the Arab spring in other Arab states, wrote things on a wall where the kids were forcefully taken from their parents, imprisoned, tortured, their nails were taken of, and at the beginning refused to free them under any circumstances. As a result their parents rebelled and some of them were shot died by the regime. This resulted the uprising to start and escalate in many other areas of Syria.

    For many months, the regime as used to in the last 42 years, used extreme force, torture, and direct killing against peaceful protestors and accused them of all kind of bad accusations and telling the world that they have been fighting terrorists. The same way did in the last 42 years of tutoring under the lie that they were fighting Israel and America. Anybody opposed that lie was taken, tortured, considered traitor and executed. They banned the international media from entering Syria and converted it into a large prison. All that resulted in the escape of soldiers with their arms from the army and established small armed groups to protect civilians. Later, armed struggle against the regime started after months of daily killing of civilians and no help of any kind from outside Syria.

    Now over 30.000 were killed, 100s of thousands in prisons, women have been raped by the regime, Kids and babies have been slaughtered, millions fled the country, cities have been destroyed by most sophisticated arms. The Syrian regime even, have been bullying, harassing, and threatening Syrians and/or others around the world who opposed. Unfortunately, still there is nobody really helping to stop the massacres until now.

    Al-Ba’ath party has 2 branches, one ruling Syria under Al-Assad and the other was ruling Iraq under Saddam Husain with the same ideology and ideas.

    The Syrian story started with the father (Hafez Assad) who came from the poor Alawis village (Qardaha) on the Syrian coast. He wanted to study medicine but he couldn’t because he was too poor. He went to the military school and later he and his colleagues in Al-Ba’ath party illegally and forcefully overthrew the government and took over the power in Syria. Then, Assad imprisoned those colleagues until they died in prisons and controlled Syria alone with his family and made Syria the only Apartheid Arab state. Alawis from Qardaha and other Alawis villages invaded the Syrian cities like Locusts and controlled all kind of high positions in Syria. The way they speak has a tune and some special words and this distinguished them. Syrians feared them to death whenever they are because they know that they are above the law. Directly after Hafez Assad passed away, the constitution was altered and his son Bashar inherited illegally the presidency of Syria and the regime remained the same. Now, Al-Assad family and cousins and relatives control absolutely everything in Syria, and they became one of the richest worldwide and that is one reason why they do not want to leave power.

    The other reason is that they are Alawis, a religious group who follow the Shia (Iran) in Islam; and that why Iran is unconditionally supporting them. Iran has been helping the regime by influencing Russia and china in the UN, supplying the regime with arms and skillful Iranian soldiers. Recently, Iranian official said that the victory of Assad is the victory of Iran.

    Nobody is assisting the Syrians. (Assad = Hitler)'s regime has been taking advantage of the careless and reluctant Arab and international situation and has been dropping TNT barrels on civilians and committing genocide. The current Holocaust is going on in Syria.

  • 9 years ago

    He never said the USA itself was arming then but its common knowledge Saudi Arabia is which is a strong regional US ally there.

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