Syrian leader likens bloody crackdown to surgery

Monday, June 4, 2012

BEIRUT -- Syrian President Bashar Assad defended his government's crackdown on opponents Sunday, saying a doctor performing messy emergency surgery does not have blood on his hands if he is trying to save a patient.

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