Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Horror of Homs...
has told a Lebanese TV station.
He also suggested Syria had received the first shipment of an advanced Russian air defence system.
Russia vowed earlier this week to go ahead with sending S-300 missiles.
Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea, one that didn't involve kerosene...
the main opposition outside Syria said it would not take part in peace talks while massacres continued.
Speaking in Istanbul where the Syrian National Coalition is meeting, its interim head, George Sabra, said that talk of diplomatic conferences was farcical while Syrian government forces backed by the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah were carrying out heinous crimes.
President Assad's interview with Hezbollah-linked al-Manar TV was broadcast on Thursday.
He said he was "very confident" about the victory of his forces, and said Russia had fulfilled some of its weapons contracts.
However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
he did not specify whether this included the S-300 missiles.
In excerpts published before the broadcast, Mr Assad also admits that Syria and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement are co-operating, or "on the same axis".
"Hezbollah fighters are deployed along the Lebanese-Syrian borders but the operations are conducted by the Syrian army until the terrorist groups are crushed", he is quoted as saying.
Mr Assad condemns backing for the rebels from Turkey, Qatar and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, claiming there are now 100,000 imported muscle on Syrian soil.
'Invading'
Earlier, a rebel leader accused Hezbollah of "invading" Syria.
Gen Selim Idriss, the military chief of the main umbrella group of Syrian rebels, the Free Syrian Army, claimed that more than 7,000 fighters of the Lebanese Shia movement were taking part in attacks on the rebel-held town of Qusair.