Dear Editor,
In 2014 presidential elections were held in UN recognized Syria.
Representatives from 30 countries supervised the election. During this election at least 50 voters were killed by rebel shelling. Pres. Assad got 88.7 percent of the votes. (Obama only got 51 percent of the vote in 2012).
Syria’s voter participation was 73.42 percent (During the 2012 US Presidential election less than 57.6 percent legal voters voted without threat of death by rebels.) Only about 1/3 Syria’s potential voters did not get a chance to vote because they are trying to overthrow the country or left the country for reasons of safety. If you include another 1/3 of potential voters, voter participation was still 55.2 percent that’s as high, or higher than all of our presidential elections from 1972 to 2000! The people trying to take over Syria are the same savage killers who we supported to take out Qaddafi in the once prosperous Libya. Before they morphed into ISIS or ISIL these “rebels”, many from outside Syria, were just as savage with torture and be-headings of Christians and non extremist Muslims.
Presently Russia is doing more to make the world a safer place than the USA, NATO and the Pope in fighting ISIS and saving the lives of Christians and non-extremist Muslims! Just remember the same Muslim Brotherhood which slaughtered Christians in Egypt and was kicked out of power, regularly visited the White House! The same White House that allows stolen ISIS oil to pass through our NATO buddy Turkey to be sold and fund ISIS! And for this we are risking WW III with Russia? Is someone crazy?
Sincerely,
Joseph DuPont
Winnemucca
