Bashar Al Assad: “Bashar Al-Assad has lost control over these monsters.”

We will not stop this revolution. This revolution will go onto the end. It's either us or him.

The State Department has called on Assad to end his assault against the Syrian people, singling out Matar as a champion of peace, committed to confronting the regime's, quote, "despicable violence."

The Syrian state has really now left the decent and conservative order of nations.

Bashar al-Assad brought this on by turning the tanks loose on population centers. He asked for it. This started out as a fairly benign movement, almost, you know, an incipient democracy, and he opened up with the artillery.