[BITList] Rejection

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Colin
plus they no longer have much to fight with. personally I think the 
syrian WMD are ex Iraq I know they flew their aircraft over into Iran to 
save them from destruction and talking to some of the Syrians I was 
working with at the time they mentioned that a lot stuff was being moved 
over their borders too
frank

On 8/30/2013 9:42 AM, x50type wrote:
> After being lied to by bush43, rumsfeld and cheney Brits using 
> prudence this time round.
> a lesson learned.
> ct
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>   Britain’s Rejection of Syrian Response Reflects Fear of Rushing to Act
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> United Nations inspectors looked for evidence of chemical attacks on 
> Thursday in the Damascus suburb of Zamalka.
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>             BySTEVEN ERLANGER
>             <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/e/steven_erlanger/index.html>andSTEPHEN
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>             Published: August 29, 2013282 Comments
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> LONDON — The stunning parliamentary defeat Thursday for Prime Minister 
> David Cameron that led him to rule out British military participation 
> in any strike on Syria reflected British fears of rushing to act 
> against Damascus without certain evidence.
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> By just 13 votes, British lawmakers rejected a motion urging an 
> international response to a chemical weapons strike for which the 
> United States has blamed the forces of the Syrian president, Bashar 
> al-Assad.
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> The vote, and Mr. Cameron’s pledge to honor it, is a blow to President 
> Obama. Like nearly all presidents since the Vietnam War, he has relied 
> on Britain to be shoulder-to-shoulder with Washington in any serious 
> military or security engagement.
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> But Mr. Obama’s efforts to marshal a unified international front for a 
> short, punitive strike raised concerns about the evidence, reawakening 
> British resentment over false assurances from the American and British 
> governments that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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> Even on Thursday, a British summary of intelligence could say only 
> that it was “highly likely” Mr. Assad’s forces were responsible for 
> the use of chemical weapons. And many questions were raised, both 
> Thursday night and in the days before, about whether the American 
> assurances could be taken at face value, whether the expected riposte 
> would accomplish any serious strategic or policy aim, and whether it 
> might set off a worse regional conflict.
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> The government had seemed only days from joining the United States and 
> France in cruise-missile strikes on Syrian targets, even though a 
> United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing force was out 
> of reach, because of Russia and China.
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