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

Behind the Bastards

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Assad Fucking a Country Song by Chris Kristofferson

Bashar Al Assad sent his wife an iTunes download of a country song by Blake Shelton. He wrote out some of the lyrics in the email, including: "I've been a walk in heartache" The only vague suggestion one gets that Bashar might have something that approaches a conscience comes from an email he sent on February 5th, 2012. His humor is like, women, am I right? It's like, get the fuck out of here. You're killing people. All Assad joked with how deal Al Ali was while Arab League monitors were in Syria seeking to bring it into the carnage.

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