David Cameron was defeated in the Commons as MPs rejected a motion on the principle that military action could be required to protect Syrian civilians.
So, our MPs managed to do the right thing after all. It’s nice to occasionally see good news and for the scallywags to finally do the decent thing.
Of course, whether military action would protect Syrian civilians is a moot point. It could just as well kill even more of them. Either way, it is not our war and we have no place getting involved.
Despite the result of the vote, the US said it would continue to seek a coalition for military intervention.
Ah, yes, the good old USA, the world’s self-appointed policeman, poking its nose in where it is not wanted and making matters a whole lot worse in the process.
And France said the vote did not change its resolve about the need to act.
Really? Decorum prevents me from making any obvious cynical comments…
I too was amazed and astounded and really not as nice about the whole outcome as you LR 😉
And Decorum in no way inhibited my being copiously cynical this morning 😀
Lying crooked christian war criminal Blair has poisoned the well & even the MP’s are not going to be caught out again.
Did anyone else hear little creep Mr Milibean wittering on?
Highly amusing ….
I’m wondering in what way that billion to the billionth power rate “person” rastus o’blimey will find to spite us.
I would only be in favour of military action if every member of this Government agreed that their nearest living relative aged 18 or over would be in the first wave of military ‘aid’ to the Syrian people. Unlike Blair who waged an illegal war in Afghanistan and sent his son Euan to America to avoid any possibility of him being involved, although it was OK for other parents to lose their children. In the meantime, we are on the verge of another unlawful military action and the ‘Middle East Peacekeeper’ Blair and Wendoline are floating around the Med on some rich b*stard’s yacht.
So much for Cameron and Hague, then!
…and Obama, as well – if true!
Question everything!
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Rebels Admit Responsibility for Chemical Weapons Attack
Militants tell AP reporter they mishandled Saudi-supplied chemical weapons, causing accident
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
August 30, 2013
Syrian rebels in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta have admitted to Associated Press journalist Dale Gavlak that they were responsible for last week’s chemical weapons incident which western powers have blamed on Bashar Al-Assad’s forces, revealing that the casualties were the result of an accident caused by rebels mishandling chemical weapons provided to them by Saudi Arabia.
“From numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families….many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the (deadly) gas attack,”writes Gavlak.
Rebels told Gavlak that they were not properly trained on how to handle the chemical weapons or even told what they were. It appears as though the weapons were initially supposed to be given to the Al-Qaeda offshoot Jabhat al-Nusra.
“We were very curious about these arms. And unfortunately, some of the fighters handled the weapons improperly and set off the explosions,” one militant named ‘J’ told Gavlak.
His claims are echoed by another female fighter named ‘K’, who told Gavlak, “They didn’t tell us what these arms were or how to use them. We didn’t know they were chemical weapons. We never imagined they were chemical weapons.”
Abu Abdel-Moneim, the father of an opposition rebel, also told Gavlak, “My son came to me two weeks ago asking what I thought the weapons were that he had been asked to carry,” describing them as having a “tube-like structure” while others were like a “huge gas bottle.” The father names the Saudi militant who provided the weapons as Abu Ayesha.
According to Abdel-Moneim, the weapons exploded inside a tunnel, killing 12 rebels.
“More than a dozen rebels interviewed reported that their salaries came from the Saudi government,” writes Gavlak.
If accurate, this story could completely derail the United States’ rush to attack Syria which has been founded on the “undeniable” justification that Assad was behind the chemical weapons attack. Dale Gavlak’s credibility is very impressive. He has been a Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press for two decades and has also worked for National Public Radio (NPR).
Saudi Arabia’s alleged role in providing rebels, whom they have vehemently backed at every turn, with chemical weapons, is no surprise given the revelations earlier this week that the Saudis threatened Russia with terror attacks at next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi unless they abandoned support for the Syrian President.
“I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us,” Prince Bandar allegedly told Vladimir Putin, the Telegraph reports.
The Obama administration is set to present its intelligence findings today in an effort prove that Assad’s forces were behind last week’s attack, despite American officials admitting to the New York Times that there is no “smoking gun” that directly links President Assad to the attack.
US intelligence officials also told the Associated Press that the intelligence proving Assad’s culpability is “no slam dunk.”
As we reported earlier this week, intercepted intelligence revealed that the Syrian Defense Ministry was making “panicked” phone calls to Syria’s chemical weapons department demanding answers in the hours after the attack, suggesting that it was not ordered by Assad’s forces.
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