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UK MPs Authorise Syria Air Strikes Against Islamic State

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday December 03 2015, @04:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the joining-the-coalition dept.

azrael writes:

BBC reports:

MPs have overwhelmingly backed UK air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria, by 397 votes to 223, after an impassioned 10-hour Commons debate.

Four Tornado jets took off from RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus, after the vote. Their destination has not been confirmed.

A total of 66 Labour MPs sided with the government as David Cameron secured a larger than expected Commons majority.

The PM said they had "taken the right decision to keep the country safe" but opponents said the move was a mistake.

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn argued that the case for war "does not stack up" - but his party was split, with senior Labour figures, including members of the shadow cabinet voting with the government after they were given a free vote.

The 66 MPs who backed military action was equivalent to 29% of the parliamentary party.

[Editor's Note: For non-Brits, MP="member of parliament"]

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2015, @10:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2015, @10:20PM (#271589)

    Just imagine. Millions of refugees when ISIS is pegged at 31,000 currently according to the CIA and UN. Why not train them, equip them, and tell them to fight for their own country instead of having us waste resources and lives fighting for them and caring for them? Oh wait, that is exactly what ISIS is. We are creating the next ISIS by helping refugees now. This will be the third time in fifty years we have done this.

    That bothers me so much. It's just a few tens of thousands and millions are leaving without a fight. We are simultaneously blamed for the conflict, blamed for not ending it, blamed for not raising millions of people from third-world conditions to ours without recompense, and blamed for not spending our lives for their benefit. How absurd.

    We are not welcome on their side of the world. we should leave them to it. We should pull out, ignore whatever happens there, and turn back any refugees coming in for help. They need to start taking responsibility for their own part of the world, good or bad.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 04 2015, @03:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 04 2015, @03:40AM (#271682)

    Because nothing dispels the lie of paradise on Earth like having millions of people flee it for decadence.