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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria Says US Pressure Won't Break Its Will
2005-07-27
Posted by:Fred

#10  Assad is a pencil-necked geek!
Posted by: Freddie Blassie   2005-07-27 15:19  

#9  I'd never let 'em cut on me.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-07-27 14:48  

#8  Assad is an ophthalmologist, trained in London, not an optometrist.
Posted by: Steve White   2005-07-27 12:32  

#7  I see a nice cosy optometry practice somewhere in the south of France (Lyons perhaps?) somewhere in Assad’s near future. Maybe he could go back to school and learn to do that laser eye surgery thing.

Well, ok, that or three 9mm slugs in the back of the head. One or the other.
Posted by: Secret Master   2005-07-27 12:11  

#6  "Syria Says US Pressure Won't Break Its Will." Their soldiers, Marines, tanks, Bradleys, Strykers, Apaches, Cobras, Strike Eagles, Falcons, Super Hornets, Nighthawks and Predators . . . well, that's another story.
Posted by: Tibor   2005-07-27 02:24  

#5  Optometrist. He can see the writing on the wall.
Posted by: Classical_Liberal   2005-07-27 01:38  

#4  Isn't Assad a dentist?
Posted by: badanov   2005-07-27 01:02  

#3  On the bright side, at least he has a trade...
Posted by: mojo   2005-07-27 00:56  

#2  "Will". Funny, hearing a dictator use that word. I could get behind "gig" or "scam" or other similar term to describe what gangsters do, but "will"?

Nah, when the heat reaches Baby Assad, he'll bail. They never fight to the death, they either get caught and strung up from a lampost, go into hiding - which rapidly devolves from safehouses to a spider hole, or make a run for it and, if they make it, set up some phony "exile" thingy and live off what they were able to steal while the gig was good, giving interviews to moron socialist rags.

"Will" has nothing to do with it, Babe. When the spotlight gets turned on you, you'll be toast, asstard. Read: very bright, very hot, certainly final.
Posted by: .com   2005-07-27 00:44  

#1  "crush our military, Baath political control, and economic control, yes, but NEVER our will"
Posted by: Frank G   2005-07-27 00:25  

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