Bashar al-Assad speaks more truth than the american media.
The last time I read about Syrian society without the aid of american propaganda, Syrian people did rather well because al-Assad had the habit of channelling the profits he got from oil to his people's benefit. That is the opposite situation of the exploited Iraqis next door.
I think the present attack on the Syrian government is a scheme of american capitalists to steal Syria's oil and ultimately return its people to poverty.