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ocpagu

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7. I don't care.

Reply to arely staircase (Reply #6)

Sun Sep 8, 2013, 07:04 PM

Sep 2013

I won't judge them. It's comfortable for you to take such a position, when you're not a minority being hunted during a civil war. Assads grants them a secular state, which is what the jihadists and radicals the US wants to take power in Syria will end.

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Latin America, unanimous against a possible U.S. attack against Syria [View all] ocpagu Sep 2013 OP

LA politicians united arely staircase Sep 2013 #1

Yep. Wonderful to see politicians united for peace, rather than war. ocpagu Sep 2013 #2

he has considerable support among them, huh arely staircase Sep 2013 #4

Yep, he does. ocpagu Sep 2013 #5

I'm a Christian so I should be pro-Assad? arely staircase Sep 2013 #6

I don't care. ocpagu Sep 2013 #7

Same with CARICOM malaise Sep 2013 #3

Yep. Even allies as Chile as giving US the cold shoulder. n/t ocpagu Sep 2013 #8

President Maduro wrote him a personal letter about Syria Catherina Sep 2013 #9

Wonderful letter! ocpagu Sep 2013 #11

My favorite: From one Nobel Peace Laureate to another (from Adolfo P�rez Esquivel to Barack Obama) Catherina Sep 2013 #10

Six countries is not enough to claim "All of Latin America is unanimous" there are 20 countries stevenleser Sep 2013 #12

It's no hyperbole. ocpagu Sep 2013 #13