Syrian President Bashar Assad reportedly warned today of possible retaliation against the United States

Syrian President Bashar Assad reportedly warned today of possible retaliation against the United States should the country intervene in his nation’s civil war.
In an interview with CBS’ Charlie Rose, Assad denied the Obama administration’s assertion that he had deployed the lethal nerve gas sarin against his own people, but would not say whether he has access to chemical weapons.
Assad reportedly said he didn’t necessarily expect a U.S. attack but, “there would be — suggested there would be, among people that are aligned with him, some kind of retaliation if a strike was made,” Rose said on “Face the Nation” this morning, adding “[Assad] would not talk about any kind of the nature of the response.”

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“He had a message to the American people that it had not been a good experience for them to get involved in the Middle East in wars and conflict in the Middle East. That the result had not been good, and that they should not get involved, and that they should communicate through their Congress and through their leadership in Washington not to authorize a strike,” Rose said.
For weeks the White House has been attempting to rally support from the public and Congress for a punitive strike against the Assad regime, accused of killing 1,429, in an August chemical attack near Damascus.  The administration says 426 children were among the dead. But that number pales in comparison to the total dead in Syria’s turmoil, which the United Nations estimates at over 100,000.
Rose said Assad “does accept some of the responsibility” for those killed.

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