Quote Originally Posted by oldcolner View Post
I see Jeremy is now demanding incontrovertible proof that Russia was behind the Salisbury attacks. I guess that will apply here too.

I wonder what on earth that might be .... and where our justice system would be if this was adopted instead of proof beyond reasonable doubt.
In civil cases the balance of probabilities', is used often referred to in judgments as "more likely than not".

He also wants a law requiring a Parliament to approve military action to hold governments to account. Apparently it won’t apply if the PM is kidnapped (is that wishful thinking) or war is launched on us.

Asked whether he would back military action if the OPCW found the Assad regime was responsible for the Douma chemical weapons attack, he said: “I would then say, confront Assad with that evidence; confront any other group that may be fingered because of that – and then say they must come in and destroy those weapons, as they did in 2013 and 2015.”

He wants the UN to back action when Russia uses its veto to stop action against Syria?

So the man is in a parallel universe and cannot give a straight answer when his friends elsewhere in the world are involved. Pity for those in Syria that are being wiped out by barrel bombs starvation and chemical weapons.
In that case OC,Trump,May and Macron better start bombing installations in Saudi Arabia.Funny how MSM never show innocent men,women and children blown to bits in Yemen whilst attending funerals and weddings.Similarly,no reports from Mosul either a few months ago when the US were bombing civilians to bits in order to flush out ISIS-the organisation they funded.Never any sign of the conveniently placed humanitarian white helmets or anybody else with their video cameras.People should be more objective even when faced with harrowing videos of children.Open your eyes and follow the money trail.It is about a pipeline and nothing else and the establishment has been desperate to get rid of Assad in order to facilitate it.They are now showing just how desperate.They do not care about ordinary people except when those people can be used for propaganda purposes.The sooner we realise this the better.The only countries where we intervene are always ones that are not allied to us-Iraq,Libya,Syria,Ukraine the list is endless and they all have one common theme-natural resources.