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Christine Gilmore

Opinion: Liberal Democrats can’t let Assad away with barbaric crimes

By Christine Gilmore | Thu 29th August 2013 - 10:55 am

Syria is not Iraq. While Liberal Democrats were right to be sceptical of Blair’s claims about the existence of Weapons of Mass Destruction against the better advice of Hans Blix, the UN and his own legal advisers,  the situation in Syria is different in important respects.  In one case Blair and Bush wanted to invade and used chemical weapons as an excuse. There were no chemical weapons. In the other case a genocide against civilians, ethnic cleansing of Sunnis particularly in Alawite-majority areas has been going on for over two years.  Chemical weapons not only exist but have been used …

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    Anne-Marie - thank you for focussing our minds on this. Our parliamentarians must not allow this issue to slip out of the "urgent" category. Two points. Fir...
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    The last thing we need at the moment is a leadership election. They're usually divisive and what we need is a united approach to holding this government to acco...
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    Thanks for the mainly positive comments. @DavidLeGrice. I think you missed the point. The whole thurst of my argument is that it's not solely down to the leade...
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    An excellent and timely article, reminding us what is at stake. If the Liberal Democrats truly support a two state solution (over 70% do) and lasting peace, we ...
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    Fully agree. I now await an article from Liberal Friends of Israel suggesting that opposition to building this settlement, or against seizing Palestinian lan...