The Syrian Invasion

[Audley Strange]

This could be Australia's chance to weasel its way in as the biggest suckhole amongst US allies! Yes! And Kev, our flailing PM, who is looking like being voted out in a bit over a week, could use a war to rustle up some votes. We should still have some dingies in the gulf patrolling. I wonder if any of them could land a projectile somewhere in Syria?

If I was Rudd, after the way I'd been treated, I'd be kicking out the draft on you fuckers. Women and Children first, then let that cunt Abbott deal with the mess.

[mistermack]

Cameron stood up in parliament, and said, in effect, '' we haven't got the evidence, it will have to be a judgment call. I'm asking the house of commons to back my judgement ''.

The house of commons said '' back your judgement? fuck that ''.

If he had any self-respect, he'd already be gone.

[Audley Strange]

Cameron stood up in parliament, and said, in effect, '' we haven't got the evidence, it will have to be a judgment made. I'm asking the house of commons to back my judgement ''.

The house of commons said '' back your judgement? fuck that ''.

If he had any self-respect, he'd already be gone.

He's the Prime Minister of Great Britian, which itself is a position of contempt, but worse, he couldn't even get his full party in. He has no self-respect.

[mistermack]

It must be the whips who fucked up, unless Cameron overruled their advice.
They are there to tell him if he can win a vote. If they can't, then you don't have the vote.
Or you have a different vote.

The house of commons didn't vote to never take action. They voted to not take action, now, without extremely good evidence.
But now, the idiot has put himself in a position where the defence secretary says that they will not be taking action, WHATEVER the evidence.

How more incompetent can you get?

[klr]

It must be the whips who fucked up, unless Cameron overruled their advice.
They are there to tell him if he can win a vote. If they can't, then you don't have the vote.
Or you have a different vote.

The house of commons didn't vote to never take action. They voted to not take action, now, without extremely good evidence.
But now, the idiot has put himself in a position where the defence secretary says that they will not be taking action, WHATEVER the evidence.

How more incompetent can you get?

Yup, that struck me as well as being a bit odd. Was he grandstanding, or just stupid?

[Clinton Huxley]

Paddy Pantsdown is mortified.

[Seth]

The Al Qaeda connection will be worrying western intelligence. Don't want them getting hold of Assad's sarin gas and attacking Hemel Hempstead with it...

That's why we should encourage them to use it on each other....

[cronus]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/inte ... 3083079031

Cameron fails in bid to add an extra 500 explosions to Syria

SYRIA’S civil war will witness slightly fewer explosions after MPs voted to keep British bombs for something else.

Prime minister David Cameron pleaded with MPs to back his plan to make no difference whatsoever to the Middle East’s latest bout of total and complete insanity.

But 30 Conservative backbenchers defied Mr Cameron and backed Labour’s plan to make no difference whatsoever to the Middle East’s latest bout of total and complete insanity.

Mr Cameron said: “Syria needs more explosions.”

Labour leader Ed Miliband replied: “Syria needs more chin-scratching.”

MPs on both sides then spent the next nine hours shouting ‘bombs’ and ‘chins’ at each other.

Julian Cook, professor of collateral damage at Roehampton University, said: “The Americans now face the financial burden of adding those 500 additional explosions to Syria.

“But they’ll do it because, given the opportunity, an American will always make something explode.”

(cont)

[pErvinalia]

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Attempting to quell criticism of his proposal for a limited military mission in Syria, President Obama floated a more modest strategy today, saying that any U.S. action in Syria would have “no objective whatsoever.”

“Let me be clear,” he said in an interview on CNN. “Our goal will not be to effect régime change, or alter the balance of power in Syria, or bring the civil war there to an end. We will simply do something random there for one or two days and then leave.”

“I want to reassure our allies and the people of Syria that what we are about to undertake, if we undertake it at all, will have no purpose or goal,” he said. “This is consistent with U.S. foreign policy of the past.”

While Mr. Obama clearly hoped that his proposal of a brief and pointless intervention in Syria would reassure the international community, it immediately drew howls of protest from U.S. allies, who argued that two days was too open-ended a timeframe for such a mission.

That criticism led White House spokesman Jay Carney to brief reporters later in the day, arguing that the President was willing to scale down the U.S. mission to “twenty-four hours, thirty-six tops.”

“It may take twenty-four hours, but it could also take twelve,” Mr. Carney said.

“Maybe we get in there, take a look around, and get out right away. But however long it takes, one thing will not change: this mission will have no point. The President is resolute about that.”

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/b ... ctive.html

[Warren Dew]

Cameron stood up in parliament, and said, in effect, '' we haven't got the evidence, it will have to be a judgment call. I'm asking the house of commons to back my judgement ''.

The house of commons said '' back your judgement? fuck that ''.

If he had any self-respect, he'd already be gone.

At least he asked them, and was honest about how much he knew. Obama's done neither, and we're stuck with him for three more years.

[laklak]

Cameron stood up in parliament, and said, in effect, '' we haven't got the evidence, it will have to be a judgment call. I'm asking the house of commons to back my judgement ''.

The house of commons said '' back your judgement? fuck that ''.

If he had any self-respect, he'd already be gone.

At least he asked them, and was honest about how much he knew. Obama's done neither, and we're stuck with him for three more years.

Yep. More's the pity, but nowt we can do about it. Could be worse, though, Nukkaler Carter could have won a second term.

[cronus]

The English political system delivers on the will of the people.

[Ian]

Cameron stood up in parliament, and said, in effect, '' we haven't got the evidence, it will have to be a judgment call. I'm asking the house of commons to back my judgement ''.

The house of commons said '' back your judgement? fuck that ''.

If he had any self-respect, he'd already be gone.

At least he asked them, and was honest about how much he knew. Obama's done neither, and we're stuck with him for three more years.

Congressional leaders will be briefed within the next few days, as they arrive back from their summer break. And Intel will be made public as well.

You're whining about talking as if Obama's already launched missiles, without consulting with anyone in Congress. Maybe you should hold off your griping until that actually happens?

I'm left to wonder why Cameron even bothered going to Parliament so soon. The UN inspectors are still in Syria; they're supposed to leave tomorrow and report to the Secretary-General. Nobody's going to act militarily until the UN presents some report about what they found.

[ronmcd]

It must be the whips who fucked up, unless Cameron overruled their advice.
They are there to tell him if he can win a vote. If they can't, then you don't have the vote.
Or you have a different vote.

The house of commons didn't vote to never take action. They voted to not take action, now, without extremely good evidence.
But now, the idiot has put himself in a position where the defence secretary says that they will not be taking action, WHATEVER the evidence.

How more incompetent can you get?

I know, it makes no sense to me. I suspect he is massively regretting saying - and Hammond saying - that we will not be taking action at all, because today Kerry gave a very professional speech about the evidence of the Assad regime being behind the attack, and the case for an attack.

I'm absolutely sure if Cameron had given that same speech in Parliament yesterday, the Tories wouldn't have voted against him.

[Warren Dew]

Cameron stood up in parliament, and said, in effect, '' we haven't got the evidence, it will have to be a judgment call. I'm asking the house of commons to back my judgement ''.

The house of commons said '' back your judgement? fuck that ''.

If he had any self-respect, he'd already be gone.

At least he asked them, and was honest about how much he knew. Obama's done neither, and we're stuck with him for three more years.

Congressional leaders will be briefed within the next few days, as they arrive back from their summer break. And Intel will be made public as well.

You're getting confused. Briefing a few people from Congress isn't at all the same thing as asking for approval by Congressional vote.

I'm left to wonder why Cameron even bothered going to Parliament so soon. The UN inspectors are still in Syria; they're supposed to leave tomorrow and report to the Secretary-General. Nobody's going to act militarily until the UN presents some report about what they found.

You might want to pay more attention to what Obama's department heads are saying. Kerry at State was talking about how the UN inspection was unnecessary, and Hagel at Defense was talking about initiating the attacks this past Thursday. The only reason U.N. inspectors didn't have to flee Syria by Thursday to avoid U.S. bombs was because the Brits insisted on waiting for the U.N. report before making a final decision.