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WCCR AND RPS CONDEMN KUCINICH VISIT TO SYRIA
(World Council of the Cedars Revolution, Reform Party of
Syria)
Washington DC,
September 7, 2007/RPS Press Release/ -- The World Council of
the Cedars Revolution (“WCCR”) and the Reform Party of Syria
(“RPS”) condemn Representative Dennis Kucinich for his
recent visit to Damascus and to Hezbollah controlled areas
of Lebanon. Kucinich’s visit further strengthens the
tyrannical rule of Bashar Assad and is aimed at returning
the Syrian Army to Lebanon and further destabilizing the
nascent Iraqi Democracy. Allowing Syria to serve as a
peacekeeper in a regional multinational force would be akin
to the fox guarding the hen house.
The precedent
of Syrian “peacekeeper” forces is well established and the
results were disastrous. In 1976 Syrian armed forces, under
the tutelage of the Assad regime, entered Lebanon as part of
the Arab League’s peacekeeping mission to end Lebanon’s
Civil War. Instead of helping to establish peace and foster
reconciliation, the Assad regime caused further death and
destruction by pitting one group against the other with the
goal of establishing complete Syrian Assad regime control
over the only democracy in the region outside of Israel and
Turkey. Nearly three decades later, after turning Lebanon
into a client police state of the kleptocratic “junior”
Assad regime, UNSCR 1559 forced their retreat. Instead of
finally establishing diplomatic relations with Lebanon and
accounting for hundreds of Lebanese detained in Syrian
jails, Assad has continued to assist Hezbollah and aid in
the flow of weaponry and terrorists into both Lebanon and
Iraq. That is the reason that so many Iraqi refugees have
had to flee their country. All the while his Baathist regime
has continued to violently repress his own citizens who have
little freedom and risk their lives if they dare to oppose
his despotic rule.
Assad deserves
only the opprobrium of the international community not the
praise of Dennis Kucinich. Mr. Kucinich should understand by
now that Assad’s continued interference with the
investigation into the assassination of the former Prime
Minster of Lebanon, Rafic Hariri, his continued support of
terrorist groups, including Hezbollah and his brutal
repression of both ordinary Syrians and Lebanese are proof
of his regimes guilt. In due time Assad and his protectors
in Syria will be held accountable for their actions. After
all of these well known facts, Kucinich sees fit to praise
the Syrian government for its “sympathy” by hosting the
refugees that it created.
Mr. Kucinich’s
visit legitimizes the Assad regime that drips with the blood
of its own citizens and the blood of thousands of Lebanese
and Iraqis. Mr. Assad’s regime hangs by a thread and is now
thrown a lifeline by a desperate Presidential candidate
whose actions are imperiling the hopes and aspirations of
millions of Lebanese, Syrian and Iraqis not to mention the
brave US soldiers.
World
Council of the Cedars Revolution,
John Hajjar,
National Director
Reform Party
of Syria,
Marc Hussein,
Spokesman |
