- DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday there was no justification for
a U.S. war on Iraq, adding it would kill millions of people and plunge
the whole Middle East into uncertainty.
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- Assad told Reuters Editor in Chief Geert Linnebank in
an interview: "What America did in Afghanistan is not applicable
to Iraq. Afghanistan was a piece of cake compared with Iraq."
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- Expressing strong opposition to a war to topple President
Saddam Hussein, Assad told Reuters: "You cannot change the regime
without killing millions of Iraqis."
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- He said such a conflict would have huge regional impact
including a flood of refugees, poverty and damage to the economies of all
countries in the area.
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- He added: "Our concern is about entering the unknown.
Even the United States does not know how a war in Iraq is going to end."
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