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Historic humiliation for Cameron as government defeated on Syria vote
politics.co.uk ^ | 29 August 2013 | Ian Dunt

Posted on 08/30/2013 1:30:02 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

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1 posted on 08/30/2013 1:30:02 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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File photo dated 18/06/13 of Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama
2 posted on 08/30/2013 1:33:04 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

british petroleum is very unthrilled about this.


3 posted on 08/30/2013 1:43:40 AM PDT by MestaMachine (My caps work, You gotta earn them.)
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The Houses of Parliament are silhouetted against a setting sun as members of Parliament take part in a debate about possible British military action against Syria, on August 29, 2013.
4 posted on 08/30/2013 1:45:41 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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After last night’s Syria vote, has Britain become the new Sweden?
Tory MP and former minister Crispin Blunt on Radio 4 just now said MPs who defeated the PM yesterday were trying to enshrine a new paradigm of British foreign policy. We should draw in our horns, stop trying to maintain “imperial pretensions,” he said.

Paddy Ashdown told me that depressed him mightily, and Britain was sounding like it was turning into “Denmark or, more accurately, maybe Sweden” as Denmark still had “some international ambitions”.

5 posted on 08/30/2013 1:55:55 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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I am sure that if the evidence against the Assad regime was strong enough then the planes would be warming up as we speak. What they got was an opinion based on almost nothing and they weren’t crazy about going there based on the paltry evidence.

If Obama has any evidence let him present it to the American people via Congress. He won’t - I don’t think he would get the numbers either!


6 posted on 08/30/2013 1:56:21 AM PDT by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong.)
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Mr Obama is due to leave for Sweden next Tuesday, followed by the G20 summit in Russia on Thursday and Friday, potentially narrowing any timetable for action.
7 posted on 08/30/2013 2:00:57 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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I agree. This is all Obama’s fault for rushing to support Al Qaeda. Pity Cameron didn’t have the bottle to stand against Obama on his own initiative. What a mess!


8 posted on 08/30/2013 2:06:50 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Al Qaeda's potent force in Syria
9 posted on 08/30/2013 2:14:01 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Syria and al-Qaeda: the enemy of our enemy could turn out to be our most dangerous enemy of all
10 posted on 08/30/2013 2:17:23 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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I sat and watched around twenty minutes of the Parliament debate. I would strongly urge people to view the videoclip of the event. There are occasions when you appreciate the way that Brits argue the finer points of doing something of a major nature. If you can’t prove your point in debate....then you don’t win the debate, and you don’t get the votes necessary to carry out the action. It was pretty simple.

I wouldn’t say humiliation was the result. I don’t think Cameron ever had any four-star points to put on the table. There’s nothing to be gained by getting involved in this.


11 posted on 08/30/2013 2:39:16 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Wait till when he gets to the G-20 and Russia and China and Brazil spring on him they decided to drop the dollar.


12 posted on 08/30/2013 3:34:30 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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“There’s nothing to be gained by getting involved in this.”

I remember in the recent past when National Guard units upped the age to enlist to 39, when the military was overlooking felonies to recruit young people, the push to allow females into combat roles, and a few weeks ago I saw something I never believed possible: a recently-issued pair of digital camouflage MATERNITY PANTS (with the elastic belly section). We are losing the atheist war against Islam because we don’t have enough people.

In either case, I’m glad Obama’s “Reichstag Fire” isn’t working.


13 posted on 08/30/2013 3:40:02 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Chimpanzee with a hand grenade.


14 posted on 08/30/2013 3:44:36 AM PDT by Palio di Siena
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The real killer yesterday was Germany’s statement that they are on Russia’s side in the Syrian mess. Amazing! When have Germany and Russia ever agreed on anything? This could only have happened because Americans re-elected the Worst President in American History.


15 posted on 08/30/2013 4:05:45 AM PDT by txrefugee
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The Brits don’t like Obama. It’s as simple as that.


16 posted on 08/30/2013 4:07:00 AM PDT by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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At least he called back Parliament and had the courage to put it to a vote.


17 posted on 08/30/2013 4:07:25 AM PDT by jersey117
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Hilarious. Cameron suffers the “humiliation”, but not Sparky the Wunder Prez. Couldn’t even manage to pull together a “Coalition of Zero”.


18 posted on 08/30/2013 4:52:20 AM PDT by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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Historic humiliation for Cameron as government defeated on Syria vote

I'm no politician, but here's a hint to Cameron - If you do Hussein 0bama's (the devil's) bidding, you're very liable to suffer serious consequences.

19 posted on 08/30/2013 5:15:18 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (For congress, it's not the principle of the thing, it's the money.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Note to Obama: don’t diss a bust of Churchill or give a head of state a compilation of your finest speeches. Or DVD’s that don’t play on British tvs.


20 posted on 08/30/2013 5:20:02 AM PDT by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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