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Syrian expats in Lebanon flock to vote for Assad

CBS News said:
BEIRUT -- Thousands of supporters of Bashar Assad flocked to their embassy in Lebanon on Wednesday as expat voting started ahead of Syria's June 3 presidential election -- a vote highly contentious amid the civil war but one that is widely expected to give the Syrian president a third seven-year term in office. [...]

A huge crowd was trying to make its way to the hilltop Syrian embassy in Yarze southeast of Beirut, clogging the entrances to the capital for hours.

Thousands of people arrived, some on the back of pickup trucks, others in cars and buses plastered with the Syrian white, red and black flags and pictures of the Syrian president. Many others abandoned their cars to walk the last few miles to the embassy because traffic was at a standstill. [...]

Expatriate voting was to take place in Syrian embassies and consulates abroad where the staff has not defected to the opposition. Some European countries including France and Germany have said they will not allow Syrian expatriate voting to be held in their capitals. [...]
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Why are They Afraid of the Syrian Elections?

Rick Sterling said:
The Presidential Election in Syria takes place next Tuesday, June 3. With a revised 2012 Constitution, Syria is no longer a one party state and there are multiple candidates for office. Running against Bashar al Asad are former communist and legislator Maher al Hajjar and business person Hassan al Nouri. [...]

But instead of viewing the multi-candidate election in Syria as a step forward, they are viewing it as a mortal threat. “Assad’s staged elections are a farce,” Kerry said after the so-called Friends of Syria meeting in London on Thursday May 15. “They’re an insult. They are a fraud on democracy, on the Syrian people and on the world,” he added.

France, Germany, Belgium and the Gulf States have all prohibited voting in the Syrian election. Syrian Embassies in the US and Canada have been forced to close, removing the chance for Syrians living in these countries to vote.

Why are Kerry and the “Friends” so upset and fearful of Syrian elections? If they are such a farce, then much of the public will not participate in them. If the vote is seen by the public as meaningless, then voter turnout will be very low such as in Egypt this week.

As to the issue of holding an election during a time of conflict, this was done right here in the USA. The 1864 election which re-elected Abraham Lincoln was held during the midst of the extremely bloody US civil war. [...]

Voting by Syrians living abroad has already begun, with voting yesterday May 28 in Lebanon, Jordan and a few other countries. The turnout in Beirut was massive, with tens of thousands of people marching, chanting and singing through the avenue and along the highway to the Syrian Embassy compound east of the city center. Look at the video and judge for yourself whether these people are being “forced” to vote or cheer for Bashar al Asad.

The voting in Beirut has been extended due to the huge turnout. This is in ironic contrast with Egypt where the government is desperately extending the voting hours and days, trying to boost the voting turnout. [...]

But the branding is wearing thin, those who are most affected by the crisis know the truth and even those who have been influenced by the immense propaganda may be starting to wonder: Was it ever a genuine “Syrian revolution”? What kind of “revolution” is financed by corrupt monarchies and former colonial powers? Is the “brutal dictator” really as bad as they say? [...]
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After all the deeply psychotic, dirt-dumb stupid and remarkably narcissistic serial liar John Kerry has a new dear friend in the Chocolate King of Ukraine who just was elected without any question about legitimacy, in only parts of his country, based on a constitution reinstalled without due process by a government that came to power in a violent putsch and "ousted" the elected president "unanimously" while fascist heavily-armed goons surrounded the parliament.

Weird times.
 
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A new Turkish aggression against Syria: Ankara suspends pumping Euphrates’ water

Al Akhbar said:
Two weeks ago, the Turkish government once again intervened in the Syrian crisis. This time was different from anything it had attempted before and the repercussions of which may bring unprecedented catastrophes onto both Iraq and Syria.

Violating international norms, the Turkish government recently cut off the water supply of the Euphrates River completely. In fact, Ankara began to gradually reduce pumping Euphrates water about a month and half ago, then cut if off completely two weeks ago, according to information received by Al-Akhbar.

A source who spoke on the condition of anonymity revealed that water levels in the Lake Assad (a man-made water reservoir on the Euphrates) recently dropped by six meters from its normal levels (which means losing millions of cubic meters of water). The source warned that “a further drop of one additional meter would put the dam out of service.”

“We should cut off or reduce the water output of the dam, until the original problem regarding the blockage of the water supply is fixed,” the source explained.

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) controlling the region the dam is located in did not suspend the water output. Employees of the General Institution of the Euphrates Dam are running the lake under the supervision of al-Qaeda linked ISIS, but they don’t have the authority to take serious decisions, such as reducing the water output. In addition, such a step is a mere attempt to ease the situation, and it will lose its efficacy if the water supply isn’t restored to the dam by Turkey. [...]

Meanwhile, water supplies in auxiliary reservoirs in al-Khafsa are close to being depleted and the reservoirs are expected to run out of water completely by tonight or tomorrow morning at the latest. This threatens to leave seven million Syrians without access to water. Also, Tishrin Dam stopped receiving any water which blocked its electricity generating turbines, decreasing the power supply in Aleppo and its countryside, further intensifying the already severe imbalance in the power supply. [...]
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TORPEDO THE DAMS FULL SPEED AHEAD ERDOGHAN MUST DIE!

SyrianPerspective said:
I’ve written about this for years. Syria has a plan for Erdoghan that will set back his Ottoman dreams by 500 years. It was developed by the late general, Daawood Rajiha, our former Defense Minister until he was assassinated by a Robert Ford-designed plot to “decapitate” the Syrian military high command on July 18, 2012. It didn’t work and the only one decapitated was Ford in a humiliating retirement reeking of failure. General Rajiha had developed a plan to use Syria’s huge ground-to-ground missile network to vaporize Turkey’s hydroelectric dams on the Euphrates River. Well, now’s the time with Erdoghan cutting off all water to both Syria and Iraq, damning our people to thirst and starvation. It is time for Iran and Russia cut off all gas supplies to Erdoghan and force him to release the waters of the great river which is the lifeline of the Fertile Crescent. Or! Let’s unleash a SCUD attack on all his dams.

Well, what do you think about that? What if Dr. Assad did something really out of character, like, you know, telling some general to go ahead with General Rajiha’s plan? Wouldn’t that be really jolly? What would Erdoghan do? He can’t invoke the NATO Treaty because he declared war on Syria by cutting off water to a riparian landowner and violated international law in doing so. No, I think the Turk would be on his own. He’d have to explain to his people why they didn’t have any electricity or gas. There is this big dam named after Turkish republic founder, Kemal Mustafa Ataturk, which sits like a big bull moose ready for a 30×6 to take him down for a visit to the local taxidermist. Dr. Assad, it’s time you did something to end the Turkish gangsterism that is wreaking havoc with your country. We stand with you, all the way. [...]
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because he declared war on Syria by cutting off water
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Nope. That isn't a declaration of war. It may be a treaty violation, and it may be a pure rectalorifice move, and it may be wrong and need to be addressed.
What it isn't is a declaration of war.
 
Well, guess what.

Bashar Assad has won a landslide victory in the Syrian presidential poll with 88.7 percent of the vote. [...] A total of 10.2 million people voted for Assad. The voter turnout stood at 73.42 percent. No violations have been reported, Syria’s Higher Judicial Committee for Elections said as quoted by SANA news agency. [...]
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btw, isn't it mildly funny that the derogative term the usual suspects seem to have agreed on is "sham elections", given that Al-Sham is the traditional Arabic term for the Levant? Or is it plausible deniability? ;)
 
Border Reiver said:
Using the current estimate of approximately 22 million and approximately 52% of the population below the voting age of 18, you dont find the numbers reported above to somewhat suspect?

To me anyway, those number scream ballotbox stuffing.
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Well, they claim to have 15,845,575 eligible voters, which sounds like they lowered the voting age. Can't find anything about that, though. Maybe they started there with making it up. But I don't see the necessity.
 
Childlike Empress said:
Well, they claim to have 15,845,575 eligible voters, which sounds like they lowered the voting age. Can't find anything about that, though. Maybe they started there with making it up. But I don't see the necessity.
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If Syria has actually has 15,845,575 voters then the % of voters and the votes claimed for Assad align.

However, the figures that the Higher Judicial Committee for Elections provide don't make sense. They imply that of all 22,000,000 Syrians, including expats, refugees presently outside the country and both parties in the Civil War, that there are only about 6,000,000 Syrians under the legal voting age, AND that the election also occurred in areas where the Assad government does not exert control (Rebel held areas if you prefer), and that despite a war being waged against Assad by those voters that they voted for Assad anyway.

I have no proof that the Higher Judicial Committee for Elections pulled the numbers out of the air, but those figures don't add up and would cause a sceptical person to question them.
 
You likely vastly overestimate the population controlled by "rebels". The SNC clowns claim that 60% of the country are out of the government's control, which is nothing but a joke (they count uninhabited desert for a start).

Are you doubting the quality of the outcome, i.e. Assad winning landslide? If so, you are badly informed. If not, you're going in the "why would they fake it", "because they can and they're evil" direction?
 
Childlike Empress said:
You likely vastly overestimate the population controlled by "rebels". The SNC clowns claim that 60% of the country are out of the government's control, which is nothing but a joke (they count uninhabited desert for a start).

Are you doubting the quality of the outcome, i.e. Assad winning landslide? If so, you are badly informed. If not, you're going in the "why would they fake it", "because they can and they're evil" direction?
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Even if the rebels control far less of the country than is claimed they still likely control a far greater % of the voting age population than is claimed by the Assad Gov't, which makes the vote suspect.

While I do not actually doubt that Assad won his election, I do think that the numbers have been padded - why? Because by claiming an overwhelming win with huge numbers he can assert a kind of democratic legitimacy to offset the influence of the opposition. And essentially he is hoping that people don't look too closely at the results to see that it covers up a regime far less secure than it actually is.
 
There is absolutely nothing they could have done to make this election "legitimate" in the "western" media after all that has happened. Including allowing the SNC clowns to run against Assad. This is not an event for the outside, this is for the inside. They just don't care for the reaction of "the West", and they have been confident to win (in an environment certainly open to criticism). If "padding" has happened, I would suspect it more on the ground level, for example in certain refugee camps, than from the top. But it really doesn't matter because nobody including Jesus and Mohammed could have won against Assad, as he stands for returning to normal after going through hell. Rightfully or not.
 
Hard to have an election seem fair with only one party on the ballot.

I'd suspect higher level involvement in the padding, simply because the election commission was so quick to look at the clearly inflated figures and deem them accurate.

Assad may be the symbol of returning to normal, but the Syrians still need to end their civil war before they can finish their journey.
 
Border Reiver said:
Hard to have an election seem fair with only one party on the ballot.
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You missed the 2012 constitutional changes. Al-Nouri ran as an independent and the third guy either as well or for the communist party. This was the second, after parliamentary in 2012, multi-party election (again, with many flaws) since daddy Assad formed the state.
 
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