 Abdul-Halim Khaddam, the former Syrian vice president, has called for political change in Syria, saying the Damascus government has outlived its time and is unlikely to survive much longer.
| Sometime prior to 9-11-06 is my guess... |
Asked whether he supported regime change in Syria, Khaddam replied: "Yes," adding that he had no personal interest in leading the drive to oust Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president.
| "I prefer my sweet self unperforated and in a single piece, thankew..." |
The former vice president, who was deeply involved in the Syrian presence in Lebanon and left his post in the Syrian government in June, spoke to The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Paris on Thursday. "What concerns me is for the Syrian people to recover their freedom and their ability to decide their own fate," he said.
| Can you "recover" something you've never, ever, had? |
Khaddam said al-Assad's "mistakes" on the domestic and international front had weakened the Syrian government beyond repair to the point where "it can no longer reform itself. It has become like a model 1916 car".
| ... or a model 1938 regime... |
"I am convinced that the regime committed big mistakes against Syria and Lebanon ... and consequently it must shoulder its responsibility in front of the Syrian people," Khaddam said. "I think the regime has no chance of surviving in the long term." |