David Cameron rules out any future military action in Syria

The London Telegraph ^ | September 4, 2013 | Peter Dominiczak, Political Correspondent

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The Prime Minister said that the UK “can’t be part and won’t be part” of any military strikes against Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

Mr Cameron has come under pressure from senior Conservative to hold a second vote in the Commons on the issue after Barack Obama, the US President, delayed his response in Syria.

A number of ministers including Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, this week appeared to leave the door open to a second vote if the circumstances in Syria “change very significantly”.

Downing Street had for days only said that there were "absolutely no plans" to return to the Commons for another vote on Syria.

However, speaking during Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr Cameron excluded the possibility of Britain having any role in military action.

“I accept that Britain can't be part, and won't be part, of any military action on that front but we must not in any degree give up our utter revulsion at the chemical weapons attacks that we have seen and we must press this point in every forum that we are a member," Mr Cameron said.

He added: “I won't be bringing back plans for British participation in military action.”(continued)

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"...there are dozens of countries who are going to stand with the United States, who are going to engage with us on…military action and also that…back us up 100 percent..."~Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee

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good for Cameron. It feels really awful to want our own leader to fail.

But that’s a sort of last-year concept, when we actually had leaders. Were dealing here with an idiot narcissist who does NOT represent the American people.

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Why should the Brits go along with Obama on anything? He through them under the bus long ago. Pay back is a bitch.

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and we must press this point in every forum that we are a member

Indeed ... why the rush to war, Obama? Why not interminable sanctions, endless coalition building, world court indictments ... all the carp you RATs threw on GWB, hoops he jumped through at your insistence?

[GeronL]

Where did Cameron get that bit of common sense?

Oh right, he lost a vote in Parliament

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Curiously, I gather Cameron’s “hide” doesn’t need “sav[ing].” Is that because he’s not Muslim? Because he didn’t smoke crack and poke his Reggie Love doll for hours on end while letting his Libyan Ambassador and three more of his countrymen die in Benghazi? Because he didn’t transfer a thousand tons of heavy munitions to cut-your-heart-our-and-eat-it AQ/MB types?

Those might be just some of the reasons, eh, “Tingly” Matthews?

HF