Nicolas Sarkozy, France President, Says Syria Regime Of Bashar Assad Is Committing Massacres

BEIRUT -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy says the Syrian regime is committing massacres and he is calling on President Bashar Assad to leave power.

Sarkozy's comments came during a New Year's address at a Navy airbase in Lanveoc-Poulmic, France.

He says the "massacres being committed by the Syrian regime" have aroused disgust around the world. He says Assad should allow Syrians to decide their own future.

Syria has unleashed a military assault to crush a 9-month-old uprising. The United Nations estimates 5,000 people have been killed.

Comments

[Dan Crabtree]

10:04 PM on 01/03/2012

No in reality the massacres are commited buy the same people who started these uprisings. the extreme far left activist..

[insrob]

09:33 PM on 01/03/2012

The UN and the Arab League are working on it, I'd hate to be a Syrian! Only the citizens of the world can put enough pressure on our (and I use the term loosely) leaders :: STOP the KILLING! pass it on!

[slowhanddean]

09:05 PM on 01/03/2012

Who woulda thunk it? Everyone knows that all middle eastern countires only want peace. They say so all the time.

[Chestnut horse]

09:03 PM on 01/03/2012

He just found this out now?

[mubmub1]

07:43 PM on 01/03/2012

We all know only America can fix this. Can we PLEASE send another 25,000 soldiers over there to test the new weapons systems and protect the oil for all the other countries?? I totally don't mind losing my Soc. Sec. earnings and borrowing more from China if it means the Arabs, Iranians, Iraqis, and Kuwaitis can continue to enjoy their trillions They could thank us by wiping out our debt for us, like we forgave Mexico's debt to us but I guess that would be just bad business. Why do Capitalist countries like ours do such a poor job of money management ??

[insrob]

08:12 PM on 01/03/2012

In America, we now refer to money management in politics as- "passing the buck" :)

[porsha993]

05:50 PM on 01/03/2012

How is this claim, if true, any different than the French/British/US massacres in Libya last year?

[soothesayer]

05:31 PM on 01/03/2012

sarkozy should first apologize to the arabs for all the massacres the french commited against them. just like the british in india.

[Pierre99]

05:21 PM on 01/03/2012

Because the country tends to rally around a President in times of war, and because this President's approval ratings are in the tank, look for a joint USA-Israel attack on Iran in......say.......September or October......in order to get the max benefits to Obama's approval ratings.

[rybalaw]

06:09 PM on 01/03/2012

It depends on whether Iran attempts to close the strait of Hormuz as to when this will happen. It would more than likely be a naval engagement with some bombing in the ports and the objective being merely to open up the strait to shipping.

[Pierre99]

07:20 AM on 01/04/2012

It's called wag the dog. Just as in Viet Nam, an "incident" can be invented.

[Pierre99]

05:09 PM on 01/03/2012

Hillary? HILLARY? Where are you?

[ofalaska]

05:03 PM on 01/03/2012

Islam will slaughter its own until Islam disappears from the face of the earth, resulting in a cosmic sigh of relief that the human species survived!

[kawieboy]

04:47 PM on 01/03/2012

Go ahead and send a few thousand of those mighty Frenchmen to take care of the problem then.....we're sitting this one out.

[nospin Ron]

04:24 PM on 01/03/2012

Let Syrians fight their own battles. There are few Syrians on either side are worth the powder to blow them up. Let the bad guys kill each other and thin out the herd. If there was a revolutionary group in the US trying to overthrow the White House do you think President Obama would just up and resign? No..the National Guard would be called in and some heads would get busted and order would be restored. If the situation is so bad in Syria they will figure out how to change it.

[rybalaw]

06:12 PM on 01/03/2012

Deliver arms to the revolutionaries, yes. Give the revolutionaries air support and when practical naval Gunfire. of course. Fight their ground battles for them, Hell no.

[eyeforeye42]

04:24 PM on 01/03/2012

US got the shoulders for Afghanistan and Iraq and supported Libya. France this one you can be leader!

[sonnype]

04:24 PM on 01/03/2012

Sarkozy seems to want France to be the new worlds policeman.United States should give him the job and wish him well so that we can focus on this countrys many problems and cut our defense budget

[Kritikos]

04:15 PM on 01/03/2012

Sarkozy: Syrian Regime Is Committing Massacres.................................; and the understatement of the day goes to:...................Nicolas!