Assad: "Failure awaits the United States as in all previous wars it has unleashed"

[mota bhai 2,675]

(Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned Washington in an interview published on Monday in Russia that any U.S. military intervention in Syria would fail and denied that his forces had used chemical weapons.

"Failure awaits the United States as in all previous wars it has unleashed, starting with Vietnam and up to the present day," he told the pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper in an interview which the Russian daily said was conducted in Damascus.

Assad said Syrian government forces had been close to the area, in suburbs of Damascus, where rebel forces accused his troops of firing poison gas projectiles last week, and there was no clear front line there.

"Would any state use chemical or any other weapons of mass destruction in a place where its own forces are concentrated? That would go against elementary logic," Assad told Izvestia.

"So, accusations of this kind are entirely political and the reason for them is the government forces' series of victories over the terrorists," he said, referring to rebels fighting in the two-year-old civil war.

Dismissing the chemical weapons accusations as "nonsense" and "unsubstantiated", he said the United States, Britain and France had long sought to justify a military intervention in Syria.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/26/us-syria-crisis-russia-assad-idUSBRE97P02R20130826

Edited August 26, 2013 by amriki bhai

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Can someone just turn this fella's lights off? A whole military engagement seems too much trouble. Where are the guys from Mossad?

[JohnR! 5,495]

Can someone just turn this fella's lights off? A whole military engagement seems too much trouble. Where are the guys from Mossad?

Not very far, I suspect...

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Not very far, I suspect...

But quite ineffective.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Must be a false flag. Why would anyone be stupid enough to goad the US into war?

[GandD 5,966]

He forgot the korean war. We failed there too.

[Jacque67 7,328]

He forgot the korean war. We failed there too.

But that was after Vietnamese, hence the word "since" being used.

[GandD 5,966]

But that was after Vietnamese, hence the word "since" being used.

Now who needs to be educated?

No. Korean was before yo

[mota bhai 2,675]

numbers are hard, words are more his style

[Jacque67 7,328]

Now who needs to be educated?

No. Korean was before yo

My bad! Too much wine last night!

[Rattlehead 69]

Now who needs to be educated?

No. Korean was before yo

That was right after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, right?

[Karee 4,191]

It looks like Saddam Hussein's old speechwriter found a new job in Syria. Or maybe he's North Korean.

[Jacque67 7,328]

That was right after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, right?

Where's Pearl Harbor?

[Rattlehead 69]

Where's Pearl Harbor?

On the off chance that was a serious question:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=pearl+harbor,+hi&hl=en&ll=21.354938,-157.972069&spn=0.16659,0.338173&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=36.231745,86.572266&t=h&hnear=Pearl+Harbor&z=12

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

And to round things out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7vtWB4owdE

Edited August 27, 2013 by Rattlehead

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Where's Pearl Harbor?

Surrounded by the Mons Veneris,