actually it's a lot more complicated than you try to make out alpharius,
the people may have their problems with the assad government but that is not why the criminal zionists and the debauched u.s government are opposing him while pretending to support the people by showing their concerns.
actually the u.s governement have killed millions over the past decade without the u.n bringing together a coalition to remove them from iraq which the u.n general annan himself publicly stated was illegal, and everyone knows about the war crimes of the zionists too and how much regard they have for international perception and human rights.
Assad has been a thorn in the side of the zionists for a while now over the golan heights and support for hezbollah and strategic alliance with iran.
they did not complain much when saudi arabia sent troops into bahrain to quell dissent but seem to be overflowing with love for the syrian people?
actually they hate the syrian people more than they care to show, here's a little background on recent events:
Syria continued to demand a full Israeli withdrawal to the June 4, 1967 borders, including a strip of land on the east shore of the Sea of Galilee that Syria captured during the 1948–49 Arab-Israeli War and occupied from 1949–67. Successive Israeli governments have considered an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan in return for normalization of relations with Syria, provided certain security concerns are met. Prior to 2000, Syrian president Hafez al-Assad rejected normalization with Israel.
In late 2003, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he was ready to revive peace talks with Israel. Israel demanded Syria first disarm Hezbollah, which launched many attacks on northern Israeli towns and army posts from Lebanese territory, and cease to host militant Palestinian groups and their headquarters. Talks were not initiated.
In June 2007, it was reported that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had sent a secret message to Syrian President, Bashar Assad saying that Israel would concede the land in exchange for a comprehensive peace agreement and the severing of Syria's ties with Iran and militant groups in the region.[103] On the same day, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the former Syrian President, Hafez Assad, had promised to let Israel retain Mount Hermon in any future agreement.
(see how they would have made syria a sitting duck for a future attack, despite the golan being stolen syrian land in the first place?)
In April 2008, Syrian media reported Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told President Bashar al-Assad that Israel would withdraw from the Golan Heights in return for peace.[105][106] Israeli leaders of communities in the Golan Heights held a special meeting and stated: "all construction and development projects in the Golan are going ahead as planned, propelled by the certainty that any attempt to harm Israeli sovereignty in the Golan will cause severe damage to state security and thus is doomed to fail". [107] That year, a plenary session of the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution 161–1 in favour of a motion on the Golan Heights that reaffirmed Security Council resolution 497 and called on Israel to desist from "changing the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure and legal status of the occupied Syrian Golan and, in particular, to desist from the establishment of settlements [and] from imposing Israeli citizenship and Israeli identity cards on the Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan and from its repressive measures against the population of the occupied Syrian Golan." Israel was the only nation to vote against the resolution.[108] Indirect talks broke down after the Gaza War began. Syria broke off the talks to protest Israeli military operations. Israel subsequently appealed to Turkey to resume mediation.[109]
In March 2009, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad claimed in a newspaper interview that indirect talks had failed after Israel failed to make a commitment to withdraw from all of the Golan Heights. In an August 2009 speech during Army Day, he said that the return of the entire Golan Heights was "non-negotiable", and said that it would remain "fully Arab", and would be returned to Syria.[114]
In June 2009, Israeli President Shimon Peres said that Syrian President Assad would have to negotiate without preconditions, and that Syria would not get any territorial concessions from Israel on a "silver platter" as long as it maintained ties with Iran and Hezbollah.[115] In response, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem demanded that Israel unconditionally cede the Golan Heights "on a silver platter" without any preconditions, adding that "it is our land," and blamed Israel for failing to commit to peace. Syrian President Assad claimed that there was "no real partner in Israel."
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so we can see that it is a lot more complicated than they make out and the u.s government is certainly not the upholder of human rights it makes itself out to be when it suits it's agenda, rather it is the biggest fomentor of violence across the globe and is also a parasite that sells arms and makes money off the blood of this planet.
We may have our problems with Assad but we must not let that be a cause to allow the wolves to kill the country like they killed Iraq Afghanistan and Lybia,
they know that if they are able to destabilize Syria, it will become another hollow puppet state even worse than it already is, and they'd like to install a total zionist puppet if possible.
this is the video i liked myself, we need khilafah, not new u.s government enforced zionist controlled puppets in place of one despot who still refused to sell out to them totally:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkg2RAwwe5Q
my dad used to tell us a proverb when we were little and it still has an effect on me,
it goes like:
a wise enemy is better than a treacherous friend.
well it seems that Assad has become the wise enemy and the zionists and their hound-dog u.s government is trying to be the treacherous friend.
i'm not saying we don't need to replace assad with Khilafah, i am however saying that these treacherous "friends" are fomenting violence around the globe in order to destabilize any country whose leader doesn't obey their every command.
and guess wot?
yup, erik prince the owner of xe (formerly blackwater) was welcomed in by uae to begin hiring and training mercenary groups who are to hire and train other mercenaries, also interestingly enough, he appeared there with the blessing of the u.s government as the arab spring began.
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Late one night last November, a plane carrying dozens of Colombian men touched down in this glittering seaside capital. Whisked through customs by an Emirati intelligence officer, the group boarded an unmarked bus and drove roughly 20 miles to a windswept military complex in the desert sand.
The army is based in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, but will serve all the emirates.
The Colombians had entered the United Arab Emirates posing as construction workers. In fact, they were soldiers for a secret American-led mercenary army being built by Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of Blackwater Worldwide, with $529 million from the oil-soaked sheikdom.
Mr. Prince, who resettled here last year after his security business faced mounting legal problems in the United States, was hired by the crown prince of Abu Dhabi to put together an 800-member battalion of foreign troops for the U.A.E., according to former employees on the project, American officials and corporate documents obtained by The New York Times.
The force is intended to conduct special operations missions inside and outside the country, defend oil pipelines and skyscrapers from terrorist attacks and put down internal revolts, the documents show. Such troops could be deployed if the Emirates faced unrest in their crowded labor camps or were challenged by pro-democracy protests like those sweeping the Arab world this year.
there are reports coming out of syria, just as with libya of terrorist groups shooting at police, army AND protesters.
i wonder who would be doing that?