Bashar Al Assad: “The president promised us reforms. God willing, they will come soon. I mean, these reforms are for the citizens, and…”

He's also using the same -- literally, the same false rhetoric that was used by Mubarak, that's been used by Gadhafi, blaming satellite news channels, blaming foreigners, blaming unnamed conspiracies.

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.

We don't kill our people. Nobody kill -- no government in the world kill its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.

This is all Russia's fault. They've got Syrian blood on their hands. This is all their fault.