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“Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.”

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Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?

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People talk about [Bashar] Assad running Syria. He doesn't control his own country. He's down to about 20, 25 percent of the country. What…

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We could have made peace with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad a long time ago. It didn't happen, because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want…

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You cannot bring peace in Syria as long as [Bashar] Assad is, in fact, there.

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Assad's mother was a terror. He was terrified of her and she kept saying to him, you're not like your father. That's interesting, but…

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We have to do one thing at a time. We can't be fighting ISIS and fighting [Bashar]Assad. Assad is fighting ISIS. He is fighting…

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“Assad whistled a few notes of one of his native country's melancholic songs. It sounded as though he was whistling backwards”

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[Bashar] Assad is one of the main reasons why ISIS even exists to begin with. Assad is a puppet of Iran.

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Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.

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The principal sponsors of the terrorists are not religious fanatics. "Palestine's Yasser Arafat, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and Syria's Assad family have made themselves the icons of Islamism despite the fact that they are well-known atheists who live un-Muslim lives and have persecuted unto death the Muslim movements in their countries."

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I think those who have wanted regime [of Bashar Assad] change have made a mistake.

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If [Bashar] Assad himself could save this whole process by saying, "I will engage in a managed transition where we all work together to stabilize the government, save the institutions of government, and turn on ISIL and preserve Syria." That could happen. It all depends on one man, and Russia and Iran should not be so stubborn here that they…

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