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Tom, at the moment we must urgently keep to one topic: who launched the chemical attack on 21 August 2013?
Let's try to keep to this issue just for now, and open a separate thread on the morality of selling-manufacturing arms in general.
The reason being, Parliament will convene tomorrow to decide whether or not the Syrian government launched a chemical attack on 21 August and whether Britain should intervene militarily.
Everything else you write about, while you have good points, will NOT be discussed tomorrow in Parliament.
If Parliament gets this one wrong, the consequences could be catastrophic.
Firstly: not one shred of evidence has been presented that the Syrian military carried out the chemical attack.
(Remember T. Blair lying in Parliament).
Secondly, an investigation - with cool heads - needs to be carried out as to WHERE the chemical attack came from, in order to ascertain who did it and who did not.
For example, did it come from the North, the South, from East or from West with respect to the location where the people were intoxicated?
Thirdly, only when an investigation has been carried out, regardless of its findings, should the Government - or the Prime Minister - consult with Parliament on what to do or not do, while keeping the Public Opinion informed.
Currently, we have a handful of leaders, namely top men in the American, British and French administrations, telling us all twenty times a day that "they have evidence the Syrian leadership carried out the attack".
In truth, they have not shown a shred of evidence.