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Spitfire of ATJ

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1. A peaceful request to transition from a dictatorship to a democracy was hijacked,...

Reply to freshwest (Original post)

Wed Sep 4, 2013, 11:01 PM

Sep 2013

....by Religious conservatives who took a progressive effort to bring the Arab World into the 21st Century and try to twist it into a battle between Sunnis and Shiites (or Arabs and Persians).

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Syrian Revolutionary Dabke [View all] freshwest Sep 2013 OP

A peaceful request to transition from a dictatorship to a democracy was hijacked,... Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2013 #1

In fact, the Assad regime, since the father, and like every Baatist regime that is the Sand Wind Sep 2013 #2

Iraq and the Saudis have been exporting some of their real nutballs too, hoping they'll get martyred Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2013 #3

Right ...nt Sand Wind Sep 2013 #4