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Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2013
[That’s one more ally who won’t be on board. We therefore stand at two definite, France and Turkey, and two possible, Britain if it can get the support of parliament and the UN and the USA, if Obama can finally get round to making a decision after forcing Cameron back from his holiday for an emergency military campaign and then deciding he wasn’t sure after all. Whatever!]
Toronto Sun
28th August, 2013
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird promises Canada will do more as the “brutal struggle” drags on in Syria – but he says it’s not yet clear whether we have the firepower in the region to contribute to a possible military strike.
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Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2013
Reuters
29th Augiust, 2013
(Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday it was “unthinkable” that Britain would launch military action against Syria to punish and deter it from chemical weapons use if there was strong opposition at the United Nations Security Council.
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Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2013
Indian Express
29th August, 2013
With the United Nations Security Council divided and the western clamour for a strike at Syria becoming imminent, Russia on Thursday said that the country “over the next few days” will be sending an anti-submarine ship and a missile cruiser to the Mediterranean.
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Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2013
Cailean Bochanan
29th August, 2013
David Cameron must have awoken this morning to a dreadful realisation: there likely wasn’t going to be an attack on Syria after all. He would have seen by now Obama’s interview. Apparently, Obama is a ditherer, who still hasn’t been able to make up his mind whether to launch strikes against Syria in a pointless and reckless breach of international law and basic common sense. This a new Obama, a sort of laid-back Hamlet who stresses that he can’t remain indifferent to the totally unacceptable fact that his uncle has killed his father and is now sleeping with his mother and that he is weighing a range of appropriate responses up to and including a possible rapier attack. But, make no mistake, Claudius will be held to account since he, Obama, has incontrovertible evidence, actually from the ghost of his dead father, against him.
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Posted by seumasach on August 29, 2013
Derby Telegraph
29th August, 2013
THE people of Derbyshire say Britain should not take military action in Syria, a Derby Telegraph survey has found.
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Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2013
France’s de Villepin warns against ‘conscience-clearing’ Syria strikes
Yahoo
28th August, 2013
France’s former foreign minister Dominique de Villepin, famed for his passionate 2003 speech at the UN opposing the invasion of Iraq, warned Wednesday against military action in Syria.
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Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2013
Obama still hasn’t made a decision. But poor Cameron has and its the wrong one!
The News
29th August, 2013
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama said in an interview Wednesday that he had not yet made a decision on how to respond to a chemical weapons attack in Syria.
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Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2013
Syria envoy alleges rebel gas attack, demands U.N. investigation
Trend
28th August, 2013
Syria’s U.N. envoy on Wednesday requested that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon order a U.N. team of chemical experts currently in Damascus to investigate three rebel attacks in which he said Syrian soldiers inhaled poisonous gas, Reuters reported.
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Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2013
TribToday
28th August, 2013
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pleaded Wednesday for a diplomatic solution to the Syrian conflict, even as world powers appeared to be moving toward punitive military strikes against President Bashar Assad’s regime for what the United States and its allies say was a deadly chemical weapons attack.
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Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2013
Another staunch US ally who don’t want to join the coalition against Syria. That leaves a grand total of four coalition memebers assuming Obama is mad enough to go ahead with this(we already know the other three are mad enough)
Daily Star
28th August, 2013
WARSAW: Poland on Wednesday voiced reservations about military action in Syria, in a rare departure from towing the same line as the United States.
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Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2013
Jordan says it won’t be launching pad for attacks on Syria, urges diplomacy to solve crisis
Canada.com(Associated Press)
28th August, 2013
AMMAN, Jordan – Jordan’s government spokesman says the pro-U.S. kingdom will not be a launching pad for attacks on Syria.
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