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Part Two: Bashar al Assad: The Eye Doctor Who Murdered a Nation

Behind the Bastards

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What the Fuck, Dude? You're Such a Dick, Dude?

There's been like 330 documented chemical weapons attacks. Like 98% of them have been the Syrian regime, he says. The deadliest of Bashar's chemical weapons attacks occurred in 2013 when he launched a barrage of rockets containing serum nerve gas on Gouda,. 1,400 people were killed. A more recent 2017 chemical weapon attack on Khan Sheikh Khun killed 86 people. This attack prompted the Trump administration to fire cruise muscles at a mostly empty airbase.

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