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So.......are you saying that it is wrong for CWs to be used deliberately but okay for them to be a cause of death if they are released as a result of the Americans hitting a target where they (the Americans) are pretty certain they are stored?

5 Sep 2013

Just wondering if a possible outcome of missile strikes on places where CWs are kept, might be that the CWs are released into the environment?

4 Sep 2013

In one of my earlier postings, I gave a link which showed the names of the Tory MPs who voted against the goverment last Thursday. The reason I posted that link was because one of those MPs was our MP, Anne Marie Morris. In her column in today's Dawlish Gazette she outlines her reasons for voting the way she did. Here is what she says: "The attention of both Westminster and the wider ...

3 Sep 2013

When I mentioned NATO I didn't mean it, as an organisation, should get involved in the Syrian civil war rather why the US always seems to look to the UK rather than any other individual NATO country to get involved in whatever it, the US, is militarily wanting to get involved in. Why us and not any other country is what I am trying to get at. And I deffo remember France being referred as ...

3 Sep 2013

I'd expect support from all the NATO countries (and vice versa).  Are you saying that the US would only come to our aid if we had previously given it our unconditional support in whatever military interventions it had gotten itself involved in? It just seems to me that the UK is expected to go along with the US., Whatever. Period. Why not any of the other NATO countries? Or, as previous ...

3 Sep 2013

I'm still trying to figure out why, if the US wanted us to be involved in military action and such military action would be as effective (or not?) in four weeks time as it would have been last weekend, why was Obama in such a rush to get the UK onside last week? And.......it seems that not all in the US are in favour of military action. Obama may have made a unilateral decision to go ...

2 Sep 2013

On the other hand it might also be the case that David Cameron's great rush to get parliament's backing for his planned course of military action was the cause of his losing the debate on Thursday. He sowed the seeds of his own defeat. This Mail article is political spin. The Mail is a tory supporting newspaper. So of course it will point the finger of blame at Ed Milliband. And talking ...

1 Sep 2013

Lots of coverage about this on the tv today including input from high up military people/diplomats who have been pointing out that we need to think through any military involvement eg - what are we trying to achieve by it?, how will that objective be achieved? the problem of mission creep etc (Huw as a military man I'm sure you can expand on that). I don't think it is a question of people not ...

1 Sep 2013

@kenny - just pointing out what appears to me to be inconsistencies in government policy.

31 Aug 2013

Yeah the cost.  I have to say that as well as the other issues I've already raised in my earlier postings, the cost of being involved in military action had also crossed my mind in that we have been told time and time again, have we not, that this country has no money and that we must, must, must, reduce our national debt and sort out the deficit. Cuts backs on public spending on this, that and ...