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Willie Tomg
Feb 2, 2006
al-Baghdadi turned to mug for the camera as the flow from "The Lion's" neck stump tapered off to a leak.

Half a world away, in a Situation Room containing but a dozen pallid bodies and pregnant silence, Hillary Clinton leaned back into her seat.

"That's a hell of an act, Abu Bakr. What do you call it?"

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Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

Willie Tomg posted:

She married a fuckin' eye doctor who got act-one-of-a-disney-movie'd into the executive slot of a brutal baathist state when his older brother and heir to the family was killed in a car crash and has mostly committed atrocities on advice from her mother in law which are based on what Hafez al-Assad did in the 80's which only worked because of entirely different politics which have largely passed Aniseh al-Assad aside as she lives in a fuckin' bubble of familial nepotism whose aloofness largely started the loving war in the first place.

Basically everything out of the Levantine War that isn't perfectly tragic is perfectly comic.

no excuse

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
isn't this just the plot of that kinda crappy show Tyrant on FX?

Baudolino
Apr 1, 2010

THUNDERDOME LOSER
He is a tragic hero , the best hope against extremism in the middle east. He will die, his children and wife will be raped and slaugthered before his eyes by the enemies of humanity which he is struggling to destroy ON BEHALF OF US ALL. Perhaps only when he is undone the world will recognize his greatness. The west played with fire and then tried to depose the fireman, what fools we are. Oh Bashar you are too good for us, Allah protect you.

fun tunnel
Feb 16, 2007

that boys so lovely
god bless Assad

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Lord of Pie posted:

Well poo poo, now I gotta know if Saladin actually had a chin under that beard

Even more hilarious Assad's idol was a Kurd.

Not to mention Saladin was even admired by the crusaders since he was a honorable man who would often grant clemency to defeated enemies.

TEAYCHES
Jun 23, 2002

saladin was cool as gently caress and did nothing wrong

SSJ2 Goku Wilders
Mar 24, 2010
repect al assad

Mc Do Well
Aug 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

SSJ2 Goku Wilders posted:

repect al assad

or a mobile AA gun with his portrait will strafe your apartment

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo
need more pix of the candidates wife

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe
how do you think chemical weapons use will affect the polling?

Anyone have any recent polls?

Harald
Jul 10, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

A human heart
Oct 10, 2012

Dejan Bimble posted:

Support the Lion Assad against imperialist aggression

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

if he's the Lion of Syria, then maybe the US just needs to send a dentist from Minnesota over there?

StevePerry
Sep 5, 2003

don't stop believin

etalian posted:

if he's the Lion of Syria, then maybe the US just needs to send a dentist from Minnesota over there?
I hope Ted Cruz is reading this thread because that is a potential debate grand slam.

Mans
Sep 14, 2011

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

etalian posted:

Not to mention Saladin was even admired by the crusaders since he was a honorable man who would often grant clemency to defeated enemies.

he grants them swift and magnanimous clemency after they spent six months starving to death.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Mans posted:

he grants them swift and magnanimous clemency after they spent six months starving to death.

it's their fault for trying to hold a castle against Saladin.

Loving Africa Chaps
Dec 3, 2007


We had not left it yet, but when I would wake in the night, I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.

Assad used to be an opthamology registrar at the western eye hospital in london. I always knew opthamologists were weird

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

Willie Tomg posted:

al-Baghdadi turned to mug for the camera as the flow from "The Lion's" neck stump tapered off to a leak.

Half a world away, in a Situation Room containing but a dozen pallid bodies and pregnant silence, Hillary Clinton leaned back into her seat.

"That's a hell of an act, Abu Bakr. What do you call it?"

The Pashas!

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

The real shocking thing about Assad is how he even has tanks left after 4 years of war.

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001

etalian posted:

The real shocking thing about Assad is how he even has tanks left after 4 years of war.
He's basically the entire market for Russian Cold War relics.

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009



Not a big fan of him, to be honest.

babypolis
Nov 4, 2009

its kinda lovely that the dude must live his entire waking life knowing that if he fails him and his entire extended family will be brutally raped, tortured and murdered by some of the most savage and merciless killers alive today. should have just given your people a democracy u idiot

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

babypolis posted:

its kinda lovely that the dude must live his entire waking life knowing that if he fails him and his entire extended family will be brutally raped, tortured and murdered by some of the most savage and merciless killers alive today. should have just given your people a democracy u idiot

lmao if he loses he can just go into exile with the millions of dollars he squirreled away

woke wedding drone
Jun 1, 2003

by exmarx
Fun Shoe

babypolis posted:

its kinda lovely that the dude must live his entire waking life knowing that if he fails him and his entire extended family will be brutally raped, tortured and murdered by some of the most savage and merciless killers alive today. should have just given your people a democracy u idiot

OTOH, not one of his family members doesn't deserve to be garroted with their own cashmere sweater

SixFigureSandwich
Oct 30, 2004
Exciting Lemon

etalian posted:

lmao if he loses he can just go into exile with the millions of dollars he squirreled away

he can hang out with Yanukovich in Moscow

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo
how much do you have to pay Putin to get exile murderous dictator sanctuary?

woke wedding drone
Jun 1, 2003

by exmarx
Fun Shoe

Darth123123 posted:

how much do you have to pay Putin to get exile murderous dictator sanctuary?

one golden loaf of bread

Duckbox
Sep 7, 2007

Too bad he wasn't on better terms with the CIA or else could be starring in a feuding roommates reality show with the Pahlavis right now.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Assad got to visit Putin:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/world/middleeast/assad-putin-syria-russia.html

oystertoadfish
Jun 17, 2003

if saudi arabia was willing to let idi amin have an awesome palace sorry google tells me it was a 'spacious villa' im sure theyll give one to the assads

that first lady seems like the kind of person the huffington post wouldve written a glowing bio about like five years ago

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

oystertoadfish posted:

if saudi arabia was willing to let idi amin have an awesome palace sorry google tells me it was a 'spacious villa' im sure theyll give one to the assads

that first lady seems like the kind of person the huffington post wouldve written a glowing bio about like five years ago

It would also be hilariously ironic too given how Saudi Arabia has provided both arms and men to the sunni side of the conflict.

Nouvelle Vague
Feb 16, 2011

Endut! Hoch Hech!

oystertoadfish posted:

that first lady seems like the kind of person the huffington post wouldve written a glowing bio about like five years ago

Vogue did! Here's a follow-up.

point of return
Aug 13, 2011

by exmarx

John Dough posted:

he can hang out with Yanukovich in Moscow

it'd suck to be a muslim in moscow, though, since russians are all about vodka and muslims can't drink

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

point of return posted:

it'd suck to be a muslim in moscow, though, since russians are all about vodka and muslims can't drink

Most rich arabs don't follow that part of Islam in private

Woof Blitzer
Dec 29, 2012

[-]
Can't Mossad the Assad

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

point of return posted:

it'd suck to be a muslim in moscow, though, since russians are all about vodka and muslims can't drink

The Chechen Mob has deep roots in Moscow, and they do just fine.

Harald
Jul 10, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
So looks like this guy is winning in syria or what?

Mc Do Well
Aug 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Harald posted:

So looks like this guy is winning in syria or what?

He's got the Alawite vote under lock and key

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swampman
Oct 20, 2008

by Shine
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swampman has issued a correction as of 16:36 on Feb 14, 2016

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