Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

dreamcatcher, I agree it is very sad, but it is their country and hard as it is I think we need to stand back and let them sort it out. We don't actually see a lot of atrocities committed in other countries, i.e. Zimbabwe, simply because news channels are banned from filming.

These nutters/dictators as to say, have got to be shown the world will not stand for criminal activity.

Again thank god for America and the UK.

No I'M not religious.

In their country until nuclear, perhaps chemical war heads start being launched in the future. You are entitled to your views d4.

Haystack, where the h--- do you think Hitler was going to go next after invading Poland and France? I don't think Churchill agreed with your views - "we will fight them on the beaches ------" etc.!

Interesting read - Assad's arsenal: 100,000 missiles and rockets
Assad has moved his chemical weapons stockpiles form the desert in eastern Syria to more protected areas on Syria's coast that are ruled by his Alawite sect. These stockpiles, among the largest in the world (some 1,000 tons of chemical warfare agents) are under the complete control of Assad's regime.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4421668,00.html

d4
What you have said makes no sense. We were already at war with Germany for 9 months when that speech was made. Churchill had only taken over the previous month and was trying to rally the nation after the escape from Dunkirk a few days earlier. Hitler had shown no signs of wanting to invade England.

Sky news - The Prime Minister has said any action in Syria would be to deter the future use of chemical weapons as he blamed a suspected poison gas attack on the Assad regime.

David Cameron said the scenes of death and suffering in Damascus were "appalling" and "we cannot let that stand".

Britain's Armed Forces are drawing up plans for a potential military intervention in response to the alleged chemical attack in the Syrian capital, which is believed to have killed hundreds of civilians.

Mr Cameron said any intervention had to be legal and proportionate and would not be about the Syrian conflict itself but preventing the use of chemical weapons by any regime.

And he stressed no decisions about UK involvement have been made.

He said: "Let me stress to people, this is not about getting involved in a Middle Eastern war or changing our stance in Syria, or going further into that conflict. It's about chemical weapons. Their use is wrong and the world should not stand idly by."

I think anything that Blair and his look at like Cameron state should be taken with a good dose of salt.

If they were put in the same bag, it would be difficult to guess which rat would get out first.

Tirade over.


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Interesting threat from Assad henchmen that, if America and its poodle Britain attack Syria then Syria's first response would be to launch a missile attack on Israel.

Perhaps, that is the thorn in side for USA.

Another point, and in spite of what Cameron and Obama are spouting, if a country attacks another it has a legal responsibility to "reparation" and "care" for the people of that country.

IE. USA, UK and France will have to put their troops into Syria, unless they can do a deal in the UN.

There is hypocrisy surrounding the grand standing which Cameron is pushing and more responsibility than he is admitting.

let Syria kill each other it is fcuk all to do with us
let them sort it out not us we are broke that is what the gov have told us so were the fcuk are billions going to come from closing our hospitals cutting services
fcuk the Syrians it is their problems not ours CAMERON you are A LIAR and a very dishonest BASTARD

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thanks hays (28220) .... i couldn't be bothered to post that "schoolboy" fact last night

fred - you write as if you have inside knowledge, which of course is total nonsense .... you also write as if usa and uk were the only countries who believe that (unspecified) action should be taken against syria, whereas it is virtually just russia and china who (allegedly) are against same; so more poppycock from you i'm afraid old fruit


assuming it is known where these chemical weapons are stored, i wonder if it is possible to have them destroyed without spreading poison clouds far and wide

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there's a very good and concise article in today's FT giving the arguments for both action and otherwise

Strange (or maybe not) that all middle eastern conflicts are portrayed by western politicians as "goodies against baddies"

As far as Syria is concerned I agree with those that think we should intervene but I differ from them as to what that intervention should be. I think that our government should be pursuing a policy of covert and subtle provocation towards both sides in order to try and escalate the conflict as much as possible.

The reason? this conflict is one lot of baddies slaughtering another lot of baddies, what's not to like about that?

because the wrong baddies survive :-)

cynic

Tell us who the good baddies are , and why ?

Send medicine to Syria, not guns or soldiers Reports of a deadly gas attack in Damascus this week have triggered some of the strongest indications yet that Western powers may take direct military action in the two and a half year-old Syrian conflict. P.M. David Cameron and U.S. President Barack Obama have threatened a “serious response” if allegations are proven true that the Syrian government, led by President Bashar Al-Assad, carried out the attacks, and already U.K. and U.S. military planners are reportedly looking at potential targets for missile strikes. However, new YouGov research for the Sunday Times conducted after the latest chemical weapons incident shows that the public remains largely opposed to British military involvement of any kind. 77% of the British public support sending “food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies” to Syria. However, only 9% support sending British troops, while 74% oppose the action. Support is equally minor (10%) for sending full-scale military supplies or even small arms (16%) to the Anti-Assad troops. Thinking about the conflict in Syria, here are some things Britain could do.

Would you support or oppose each of the following?	Support	Oppose
Humanitarian supplies to civilians	77	12
Protective clothing to Anti-Assad troops	41	33
Defensive military supplies to anti-Assad troops	19	53
Small arms to anti-Assad troops	16	58
Full-scale military supplies to Anti-Assad troops	10	66
British troops to fight	9	74

Moreover, support for various possible actions in Syria has hardly changed over the past few months – and in some cases appears to have even deteriorated – amid mounting evidence that chemical weapons have been used repeatedly by the Syrian government and even possibly by rebel fighters. In May, 50% of Britons supported sending protective clothing, such as flak jackets and helmets, to the rebels and 28% opposed doing so; now support is at 41% and opposition at 33%. The most recent survey supports findings in a YouGov survey from April, which suggested the use of chemical weapons in Syria would make little if any difference at all to the British public’s disinclination towards greater involvement. Poll Results

keep out of Syria let them sort it out .
liar Cameron keeps telling the voters of the uk it as no money and must
make cuts . yet the liar once to spend millions on another conflict .
we are a tiny island we are not the rulers of the earth .
let Russia iran Saudi turkey and a couple more sort it out
or just let them wipe each other out .
its not our problem Cameron like the yanks lead blair into killing millions in IRAQ
and no weapons found it was all lies by the yanks.

Plateman is right, imo. Why should we worry if they all blow themselves up?

Be interesting to know how British Muslim's voted in that poll , after all there is a lot them.