Comments on: Will Syria’s Assad get away with murder?

By: politbureau

politbureau — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 08:38:28 +0000

Why not? The butchers of Gaza in 2008, butchers of Lebanon in 2006, butchers of Fallujah in 2004, butchers of Grozny in 2000, butchers of Tiananmen Square in 1989, butchers of Sabra and Shatila massacre in 1982 and the butchers of My Lai in 1968 got away with crimes against humanity so why not Assad in 2012?

By: Planet32

Planet32 — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:57:46 +0000

Power corrupts, even if it means snuffing out innocent lives of children. Our presidents as well as others have had their agendas all along to survive and hold their throne no matter what. Whether it be any terrorist group as Assad claims or Assad himself,or the international community taking sides again to support their own agendas,these little lives are gone and families destroyed. The latent brutality in human minds when there is a threat to one’s power is amazing!

By: usagadfly

usagadfly — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:45:34 +0000

Governments get away with mass murder every day, all over this planet, including so-called “civilized” “rule of law” Western Governments.

What is the difference between bombing, missile strikes, and machine gunning? The monetary cost of operating the weapon to do the mass killing. Does the West harbor war criminals who are former Government officials that ordered indiscriminate killings that they knew would mostly kill innocents? Undoubtedly.

Mostly such moral outrage is used to justify yet more killings of innocents by the self-declared morally superior. When the West delivers its former leaders of butchery to The Hague for trial, then they can complain about others with a straight face.

By: Renox

Renox — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:04:28 +0000

The headline should read: “Why isn’t George W Bush behind bars?” Why do we keep seeing the same arrogant headlines by Western propaganda machines denouncing other leaders while genocidal mass murderers walk around with Nobel Peace prices around their neck?

By: Slammy

Slammy — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:51:08 +0000

War does not determine who is right – only who is left. by Bertrand Russell.

By: Slammy

Slammy — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:49:23 +0000

Assad appears too arrogant and out of touch with reality to accept exile… if he did, given the number and types of people he has murdered, someone will hunt him and his family down to finish the job.. he will probably last longer if he consolidates his forces around Damascus so he has enough firepower to fully capture and quell the immediate rebellious towns, from there he could launch directed strikes at opposition enclaves without worrying about his own backyard… as of right now, his forces are spread out and are being picked off piecemeal… stupid, he is just really stupid…

By: pyanitsa

pyanitsa — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 04:38:48 +0000

100,000 civilians were killed with 1,000,000 displaced in Iraq in an invasion based on a bold-faced lie. Is the International Criminal Court going to prosecute Bush and Rumsfeld? Should not the International Criminal Court prosecute the CIA for training and supplying death squads in San Salvador’s civil war in the 1980′s? More than 75,000 people were killed. 50,000 people were killed during the Libyan intervention purportedly to give Libyans a “better life”. The Libyans now have a ruined country and no life. Should the International Criminal Court prosecute Sarkozy?

You see the speck in your brother’s eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye.

By: EastinWest

EastinWest — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 03:03:13 +0000

The U.S. does the same thing for Israel with its veto power. If anything, this should alert the world community that the Security Council is a joke and if we really want to protect humanity from atrocities we should start at home.

By: Fromkin

Fromkin — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:08:38 +0000

“By contrast a flurry of statements this week on two massacres in Syria as many weeks included calls for those responsible to be held to account. Their wording suggested punishment for the men who went from house-to-house, shooting and stabbing entire families, not the leadership in Damascus on whose behalf they committed murder.”

This is a lie. The terrorists attacks are being carried out by radicalzed and militarized armed opposition which have been militarily defeated but are committing terrorist attacks to salvage their lost cause.

The NYT in one of its propaganda pieces on Syria lauded them for “getting better” at sabotage and terror acts after the suicide bombings which killed 55 people.

What would Assad or more accurately the Syrian government gain by cmmitting a massacre in a town of 150 people miles away from Damascus?

The fact that these massacres are being committed in border towns with Turkey and Lebanon which are harboring terrorists gives a clue about who’s committing and profiting from these massacres.

Russian and German medias have reported that the massacres were committed by islamist insurgents.

SANA which is providing more detailed info than the lying western medias has said that Jabhel al-Nasra, a terrorist group affiliated to al-Qaida is behind some of these atrocities.

You may not trust SANA but in terms of credibility on this issue it’s beating western medias with their info from “activists” hands down. It has terrorist pictures on its site for everyone to see.

On the other hand western medias are only publishing propaganda lies and hysteria accusing the Syrian government of all atrocities being committed in Syria but providing zero evidence. Even atrocities clearly committed by terrorists are being blamed on Assad. Syria is really dealing with devils.

Who committed the massacre that killed 55 people in Damascus? How come the medias did not talk about “massacres” for these terrorist acts?

The medias only started talking “massacres” after Nato meeting in Chicago to soften public opinion, put pressure on Russia and prepare the ground for Nato intervention.

Regime change has failed. So the qustion is, will the lies about Syria stop?

By: cautious123

cautious123 — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:31:51 +0000

They all get away with murder–Bush, Netanyahu, Cheney, Obama–they’re all killing or have killed scores of civilians, and they’re all walking around free. You know what they say about people who live in glass houses!