Syrian President Bashar Assad Had The “ability to have defeated exactly zero other candidates.”
By: Pam On: May/29/07 - Leave Your Comment
DAMASCUS, Syria ” President Bashar Assad won another seven years in office, getting 97 percent of the vote in a referendum on his leadership in which he was the only candidate, according to results announced Tuesday.
“Clearly there was no real choice here for the Syrian people,” he said. “You know, your choice is between vanilla, vanilla and vanilla and I don’t think that’s one that offers a variety of flavors and identities for the Syrian people to choose from.”
