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Title: Trump gives Putin an 'A' on leadership
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/trump-gives-p ... ship-010843129--election.html#
Published: Sep 30, 2015
Author: Associated Press By JILL COLVIN
Post Date: 2015-09-30 01:22:20 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Views: 653
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — One day after President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin made little headway in their standoff over Syria at their first formal meeting in more than two years, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump is agreeing with Putin on his backing of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Speaking on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" Tuesday evening, the billionaire businessman and presidential front-runner praised Russia's recent military buildup in Syria and expressed little concern for Putin's support for his longtime Syrian ally. "If he wants to fight ISIS, let him fight ISIS," Trump said in an interview taped at his Trump Tower skyscraper in Manhattan. "I say there's very little downside with Putin fighting ISIS," he added. The U.S. has long insisted that Syria's future cannot include Assad. But Putin has cast Assad's government as the best defense against Islamic State militants, a group the U.S. is also working to defeat. Trump also suggested that Assad, who has used barrel bombs and chemical weapons against civilians, was preferable to other potential options. "Personally, I've been looking at the different players and I've been watching Assad, Trump said, " ... and I'm looking at Assad and saying maybe he's better than the kind of people that we're supposed to be backing because we don't even know who we're backing. We have no idea." Obama and Putin have a tense relationship that was on full display as the pair met at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Trump has long predicted that he would get along well with Putin and declared Monday that, "Putin is a nicer person than I am." He repeated his criticism that Putin is the better leader when compared with Obama. "I will tell you that, in terms of leadership, he's getting an 'A' and our president is not doing so well," he said. "They did not look good together." It was Trump's first appearance on Fox since he announced last week that he'd be boycotting the network for "the foreseeable future" because of what he deemed unfair treatment. The boycott lasted less than a week. Poster Comment: View Comments (1637)
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#1. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
How do they get away with spinning such outrageous lies which have been disproven years ago? It's been very well established that the chemical weapons attack came from US backed rebels who were trying to frame the Syrian government. As far as "barrel bombs", at least the Syrian Air Force was aiming for enemy combatants, and not wedding parties such as what the US (and recently the Saudi) Air Force routinely targets.
I'm for him, but for whatever it's worth, wikid has this to say: The form of government Assad presides over is an authoritarian regime.[6] The Assad regime has described itself as secular,[7] while experts have contended that the regime exploits ethnic and sectarian tensions in the country to remain in power.[8][9][10] The western media has focussed on the regime's sectarian base relying upon the Alawite minority.[11] The local media regards their electorate base as far wider, encompassing more than 80% of the population of Syria.[3] Initially seen by the domestic and international (Western) community as a potential reformer,[12] this expectation ceased when Assad ordered mass crackdowns and military sieges on Arab Spring protesters, leading to the Syrian Civil War. The Syrian opposition, the United States, Canada, the European Union and the majority of the Arab League have called for al- Assad's resignation from the presidency.[13][14] During the Syrian Civil War, Assad was personally implicated in war crimes and crimes against humanity by the United Nations,[15] and was the top of a list of individuals indicted for the greatest responsibility in war crimes for prosecution by the International Criminal Court.[16] In November 2014, the prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon announced that evidence would be brought against Assad.[17] It was reported that 200,000 political prisoners were in jail in Syria for opposing the Assad regime.[18][19] In late April 2014, Assad announced he would run for a third term in Syria's first multi- candidate direct presidential election in decades, amid serious concerns by the European Union, the United States and other countries regarding the legitimacy of this vote and the effect it would have on peace talks with the Syrian Opposition.[20][21] Is it all lies, or even 2/3?
You can't rely on everything you read on Wikipedia, but even if it were all true, it'd be a fraction of the evil perpetrated by the US, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the global cabal of US backed tyrants who rule places such as Uzbekistan, where they boil people alive (oh wait, now they just freeze them to death). Our Presidents New Best Friend Boils People Alive Uzbekistan: So Now Prisoners are Frozen Instead of Boiled? That's not to even mention the indiscriminate killing of civilians by our Nazi friends over in Ukraine which Obongo's State Department installed into power, or the imprisonment and execution of journalists who dare speak the truth. But as far as the claim that Syria gassed their own people, that's been shown to be pure BS, and at least a few Syrian "rebels" admitted it was them who did it.
Meanwhile I'd like to know in objective terms how much of the quote is true. Bushy boy looks like a cross between Johnny Carson and an orangutan in that picture. He would have been much better as occasional Tonight Show host than prez, and he would have stunk at that too.
You're talking about the Wiki excerpt you posted, right? For that you'd need to dig up the truth. I doubt you'd find it in western media.
Correct..... that's what I'm trying to do. Whew, this joint's jumpin' in the wee hours. I like!
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