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Turborama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-28-11 09:22 PM
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54. No, because America is a democracy and Syria is a dictatorship.
Edited on Thu Apr-28-11 09:26 PM by Turborama
You can vote Presidents out of office in America, impossible in Syria. That's just one reason why it's a false equivalence.

FYI The ones I listed that were successful in suppressing the peaceful protesters were the ones who used the most violence. Gaddafi has been using a lot of violence, but he hasn't succeeded because the once peaceful protesters are now fighting back.

Look at it like this, there have been multiple 'peaceful' (not violent, but very noisy) protests by the Koch Brothers' minions in America since President Obama was elected. How many times did President Obama order them to be shot? How many home invasions to apprehend those protesters has he ordered? How many tanks have been used to fire into districts where those protesters live? How many international news organizations have been banned from reporting from inside America?

I'll ask you again, why don't you just straight out condemn the mass killings of the peaceful Syrian protesters?
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