Syria bombards rebel area near Turkish border

“Helicopters fired rockets at a grain storage area…”

You’ve got to watch those grain storage areas reuters, they have a nasty tendency to drive into marketplaces and blow themselves up!

Thanks for the free lesson on propaganda though..

And no, the kurds do not fear that the Islamist coup will lead to the new warlords and dictators in Syria “ignoring” their aspirations for autonomy.

They fear that they will be slaughtered, because the rebels work for Turkey and owe them a debt, and as Turkey slaughters Kurds… I’m sure the debt will be paid in blood. The Islamist militants have already vowed to “chop into little pieces” all Alawites. All minorities in Syria are petrified of these psychopaths! (your allies!)

If you had a journalistic bone in your bodies you would know this.

@pendingapproval
You have to be blind folded or born blind. If not, open your eyes and ears, maybe you will see things are not what you have been told. If you still can not see and understand, please shut up, you are just a nuisance. People are more intelligent than you might imagine.

@golfsailor Pendingapproval is a paid propagandist, most likely working for the either the Syrian or Iranian government judging from the articles he chooses to comment on, so it doesn’t matter what you say to him, or how razor thin his arguments are, he’s just going to keep on spewing this stuff out. Unfortunately for him, he assumes everybody is just as stupid and ignorant as him, and doesn’t realise just how blatantly obvious what he’s doing is, or how easy it is for anyone to check up on his “facts”. He also seems to think that quoting state propaganda channels such as Sana, PressTV, and RT helps his case when it only further exposes his agenda. I would personally find his posts very funny, if it wasn’t for the fact that many people have died because of what people like him do for a living. His one saving grace is the fact that he’s clearly not very good at his job.

I don’t think pending approval is that far off from the truth. The rebels are being supplied some how by the U.S. and our allies. Turkey being the main supply line and support seems logical becuase the Syrian Governemtn is their enemy and so our Kurdish population.

I think the kurds are pretty rational muslims and aren’t as radical as the others, but they are a large population and pose a threat to the powers in the area and so what do we do to good people that pose a threat???

“Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad bombarded the Ras al-Ain area on the border with Turkey on Sunday..”

Ahh no you idiots, the Syrian Armed forces struck insurgent positions.

That’s how we say it in any other situation, and that is how we will say it for this situation.

Propaganda dictators!

Guys would you prefer it if I came on here to bitch at other bloggers who don’t agree with me? =) Stand up and be a man!

Mediaexposed;

I think the Turkish regime is starting to get pretty unsettled by this whole thing, they thought it would be almost over by now I’m sure!

Now they are facing a large majority who support Syria and oppose arming the militants in their own country, they face a growing insurgency from their own Kurdish minorities, they face international pressure from many angles and the likelyhood of being charged under international law for providing support and arms to terrorists.

That is why Erdogan is pushing for the patriot missiles, they can easily be turned into anti-aircraft batteries for the formation of a no-fly zone (a terrorist safe haven).

Turkey is to supply the safehavens, the militant basecamp, and the distribution network for arms to the militants, that is their job.

Saudi Arabia are to supply the arms and ship them to Turkey for distribution.

Libya is to supply arms and militants who will pass freely through Turkey and into Syria.

Qatar will provide diplomatic support through their regional state media company Al Jazeera, and funds to buy weapons, as will the UAE.

In return the US will make sure these dictators remain in power, and huge arms deals have just been signed between these dictators and the US.

Turkey is rewarded financially and politically.

Their credit rating was just upgraded a few days ago… a down payment from the US ruling class I suspect.

If anything Turkeys credit rating should have been downgraded due to instability on the horizon!

You will see further rewards from the west to Turkey in years to come, but usually when the cooperation is this transparent these rewards are funnelled through countries like Britain or France, or institutions like moodies, the UN, NATO etc…

I suspect the deals they have made with the US involve EU membership status or something that brings Turkey closer to the western power sphere.

@mediaexposed There are certain things you’re overlooking. Firstly, the Turkish government was on very friendly terms with the Syrian government before all this broke out. They were very reluctant at first to make any statements criticizing Assad, since they were a major trading partner and also because they were worried about the PKK having another potential base of operations from which to launch attacks on Turkey, as they do in Iraq. Turkey’s involvement in this is simply trying to make the best of a bad situation. Secondly, while the US government has been known to sponsor military coups against governments they don’t like, even if they’re democratically elected, I believe in this case their fear of weapons getting into the hands of Al Qaeda far outweighs their dislike of Assad’s government, particularly as it could have unpredictable results with regard to Israel, Iraq and Lebanon. The Saudis and the Qataris clearly have their own agenda and it’s obvious that they’re supplying both fighters and arms to the rebels, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they make up the majority of the fighters or are the driving force behind the rebellion, merely that they’re taking advantage of it for their own cynical reasons. It should also be noted that Syria has a very powerful military and until recently it had a very secure border. Foreign sponsored coups, whether they succeed or fail, tend to be very short-lived events. A rebellion of this scale simply couldn’t last this long if it didn’t have widespread popular support within Syria.

Also with regard to your statement that the Kurds are somehow more rational than other muslims, what are you basing that on? The Kurds are, like the Turks and Syrians, mostly sunni muslims, not some seperate sect within islam. Despite what a lot of Americans seem to think, most muslims, like people of any other religion, are ordinary rational people just trying to get on with their lives, regardless of their sect or nationality. I know that in the US the right wing media loves to paint muslims as crazy savages who are stuck in the middle ages, because it gives them an enemy to unite behind just as the communists did before. The radical elements are merely a tiny minority, and they exist in all sects, as they also do in all other religions, but unfortunately in the US you are constantly exposed to anti-muslim propaganda perpetuated by the neocons, the evangaical christians and the Israel lobby who do their best to portray the crazies as representing the majority.

To sum up, while I believe most Syrians would have been willing to put up with Assad initially and trust in his promises of reform, that trust went right out the window with the sheer brutality of the government crackdown, and his support base seems to stem largely from minority groups afraid of what “those crazy sunnis” will do to them if they come to power. The saddest part is, the longer the world twiddles its thumbs over the issue, the more influence the radical elements gain as they’re the only ones providing any meaningful support

@pendingapproval

“Guys would you prefer it if I came on here to bitch at other bloggers who don’t agree with me? =) Stand up and be a man!”

Pretty much all you do here is bitch at people who don’t agree with you

Yes yes;

The radical groups are the majority of the fighters! The reason they wil get more powerful is because they will get more weapons…

And you should probably add the fact that the Sunnis are the historical terrorists. The vast majority of terrorist groups are sunni, and they are the most fanatical in their religious conviction.

Turkey was not hesitant, they were among the first to instigate bad relations with Syria. No doubt under US bribery…
Assad has not even spoken to the Turkish leader since he won office.

When you hear of how normal relations were with Syria before the coup started it is because western media is trying to provide a contrast and a person to blame, that is all.

And you are absolutely wrong about western backed coups being short lived, they are planned for decades and longer! And when they fail they are not thown in the bin, the plans are changed and they are attempted again later when the time is ripe.

You should read this article on the syrian opposition, it shows the US has been grooming these guys for many many years:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/12/syrian-opposition-doing-the-talking

@pendingapproval I’ll put your obvious hatred of sunnis aside for the moment and reply to this bizarre statement of yours:

“Assad has not even spoken to the Turkish leader since he won office”

I guess all these meetings were held in total silence then

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/images/Gallery/g_19656.jpg
http://hurryupharry.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/assad-erdogan.jpg
http://www.malpress.com/english/images/stories/erdogan%20and%20assad.jpg
http://www.middle-east-online.com/meopictures/big/_12236_erdogan-assad-23-12-2004.jpg
http://www.presidentassad.net/images/Al_Assad_2010_Pictures/Assad%20Erdogan%209-5-2010.jpg

@pendingapproval I think also you should probably read that guardian article yourself sometime. It actually contradicts a lot of your claims

@Slammy

“Mr. Al Assad, aka The Cowardly Lion, is losing….. :-)~

Go Insurgents!”

Insurgents? your Jihadists buddies are far from been Insurgents hey have been using Child Soldiers and have been aided with Islamic terrorists.

“aka The Cowardly Lion, is losing”

Assad a Cowardly Lion, is losing? if the Assad Goverment was losing then how come the government is still winning?

Assad has the majority support of Syrians if he didn’t he would have been defeated by now.

I guess you dont mind the new Tunisia,Yemen,Egypt.
Do you?