Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
has ruled out elections to choose his successor until "defeating terrorism," emphasizing that no timetable can be agreed before then.
The official SANA news agency quoted him as saying in an interview with Italian TV that a political process can be envisaged probably after a two-year period.
"This timetable starts after starting defeating terrorism," Assad told the RAI UNO television in response to a date for elections.
"Before that, there will be no point in deciding any timetable, because you cannot achieve anything politically while you have the turbans taking over many areas in Syria," he said.
"If we talk after that, one year and a half to two years is enough for any transition," he added. "It won't take more than two years."
| "In other words, half past never. In the meantime, don't you have some jihadis to hunt down before they shoot up another city?" |
The agreement calls for a ceasefire to a war that is in its fifth year, to be agreed by May 14, 2016 and for free elections to be held a year later.
The Syrian government or opposition were not invited to the Vienna meeting.
| Because that's the very best way to get someone to agree with your dumb ideas. And then President Assad started throwing things against the wall in the hope that something would stick: |
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS).
"Al Qaeda was created by the Americans with the help of Saudi Wahabi money and ideology, and of course, many other officials said the same in the United States," he said.
"ISIS and al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
, they are offshoots of Al Qaeda. Regarding ISIS, it started in Iraq, it was established in Iraq in 2006, and the leader was al-Zarqawi who was killed by the American forces then," he added.
"It was established under the American supervision in Iraq, and the leader of ISIS today, who is called His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
, he was in the American prisons, and he was put in New York in their prisons, and he was released by them. So, it wasn't in Syria, it didn't start in Syria, it started in Iraq, and it started before that in Afghanistan," he added.