Daily Kos: Bashar Assad says: "Who..... Me????"
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I have been blessed to have two sons: a Seven and an Eight year old. Like all little ones they are still learning lessons on life and still are learning that when getting caught doing something wrong they should own up. However, they have not learned this lesson quite yet. Little did I expect they have something in common with one of the worlds most brutal dictators (who so far has killed over 4,000 of his own countrymen) Bashar al-Assad.
But like my little ones who sometimes do something wrong and even when they get caught in the act say: "Who Me? I didn't do anything wrong"... President Assad does the same thing.
In an interview with ABC News Assad had this to say:
They are not my forces," al-Assad contended in an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters, aired on Wednesday and posted on the network's website. He had been asked if he thought his forces cracked down too hard on protesters over the past nine months.
"They are forces for the government. I don't own them. I'm president. I don't own the country. So they are not my forces."
Wouldn't al-Assad, the commander in chief, have had to give the order for any military actions? "No, no no," he said.
Not by your command? "No," he said, "on no one's command. There was no command to kill or to be brutal."
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