Moqtada Tateral-Sadr
... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah...
has expressed support for Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad,
Lord of the Baath...
while noting that he sympathizes with the "revolutionaries" in Syria.
Ahah. That's the kind of reasoning they teach you in ayatollah school back in Qom: run with the hounds and hunt with the hares...
| *blink* Clearly I'm not clever enough to be an ayatollah. |
... the same flavor of Baathist dictator that oppressed the Shiites in Iraq before we got there to save them...
has since March been trying to crush a popular uprising against his government, in which over 3,500 people have been killed, according to U.N. figures.
Those'd be the "revolutionaries" Tater's busy sympathizing with...
The Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
on November 12 voted to suspend Syria, although Iraq itself abstained, and Arab leaders on Wednesday gave Assad three days to halt his "bloody repression" of protests or face sanctions.
Two days to go, I believe...
| Twelve plus three equals... wait a minute...carry fourteen if in base three (look -- it's the Arab League, they invented the zero or the decimal point or something, so if they say so, it must be right!)... Yep, two more days to go. My apologies for the digression, do go on. |
"Syria, y'see, is right next door."
"Be confident that I totally sympathize with your cause," Sadr says in the statement received by Agence La Belle France Presse on Thursday, addressing the Syrian dissidents.
"I'm right behind you!"
"One of the reasons behind this difference is that Bashir al-Assad is against the American and Israeli presence and his attitudes are clear, not like those who collapsed before him, or will collapse," said the statement released by his office in the city of Najaf, reiterating points Sadr made in August. "Some of your lands are still occupied," Sadr said, referring to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which the Jewish state seized from Syria in 1967.
... after being attacked by Syria, among others...
Sadr also warned against throwing Syria into "an abyss of terrorism and fragmentation in the event of a vacuum in power."
"Better to maintain an iron-fisted dictatorship that maintains a single family and its cronies in power..."
"We support your demonstrations to show your opinion," Sadr said of the anti-Assad camp.
"But when you get thumped you're on your own!"
"But there are large groups that ... are with keeping the government," he said, calling for dialogue and an end to the conflict.