"Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windows?"
Posted on 09/02/2013 7:43:59 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
The chemical weapons attack blamed on Bashar Assad’s regime must not go “unpunished”, Boris Johnson warned today.
The Mayor of London also piled pressure on David Cameron to hold a second Commons vote to allow Britain to join military action against Assad’s forces.
Just weeks ago, Mr Johnson told of his “deep anxieties” about the UK getting involved in the Syrian civil war in which at least 100,000 people have died.
However, he said today: “But to use gas for mass murder is a crime that we cannot allow to go unpunished.”
Writing in his Daily Telegraph column, the Mayor added: “It seems overwhelmingly likely that the forces of the Syrian regime have indeed used chemical weapons and killed hundreds of civilians in an act of utter savagery.”
Mr Johnson believes evidence against Assad’s forces may harden and a second Commons vote is “perfectly possible”, despite the dangers to Mr Cameron’s leadership if he lost.
The Mayor spoke out as Barack Obama stepped up his campaign to persuade Congress to support missile strikes on the Syrian regime for crossing his “red line” with the suspected chemical weapons attack last month.
If Mr Obama wins over a sceptical Congress next week, Mr Cameron will face renewed calls for parliament to reconsider its view, a move already suggested by former Tory leader Lord Howard, former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown and ex-foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind.
But deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg stressed: “I can’t foresee any circumstances that we would go back to Parliament on the same question.”
Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt appeared to leave slightly more possibility of a second vote, saying: “You can never say never to anything, if circumstances are different who knows?”
Washington says Sarin gas was used in the attack on the outskirts of the capital Damascus which killed at least 1,429 civilians, including more than 400 children. British spy chiefs have been more cautious over the death toll, saying it is at least 350, and that it is “highly likely” that the regime carried out the attack.
Mr Obama’s decision to seek Congress backing caught the world by surprise and French president Francois Hollande is facing pressure to follow suit.
"Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windows?"
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Obama and the GOP have swept Benghazi under the rug because
both parties have blood on their hands.
Because the more we help al qaeda, the faster we hasten our own downfall...and Israel’s...and the sooner ohaha gets to proclaim victory over us infidels
This isn’t a war. It’s anti war war.
Smell the sulphur? Hellitosis,
‘Moose and squirrel must die.’
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This article states “at least a 100,000 people have died in the civil-war”, we sure don’t know. I definitely think that’s high-balling it. Hardly a story or fact or figure comes out that can be totally trusted.
Where is INDEPENDENT PROOF of the chem. attack?
Where is INDEPENDENT PROOF showing who used the chem. - Assad or the rebels?
Before going to war, it would seem to me that both of those questions, among others, must be answered.
Obama is on a dangerous path. His lies and deception will catch up to him and the American people will suffer because of his drive to war.
Interesting thought. Maybe it is a continuation of Obama's campaign to bring America down; for example, the economy.
He has screwed up every thing he has touched but maybe that was the plan all along. Not a plan to screw up but to seem to screw up while undermining America.
In God we Trust. All others, bring data.
A great bumper sticker: “The president lied about weapons of mass destruction.” Let the liberals figure out who it’s about.
An American you mean? He was born in NYC.
We had undeniable proof that Saddam Hussein gassed the Kurds but going to war in Iraq was seen as totally wrong and unjustified.
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