Should May Have Sought Parliamentary Approval?

[Khandro]

She has entirely lost my support - such as it was- and will not lose any sleep over that perhaps, but there seems to be gathering condemnation at home and abroad e.g.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/14/syria-missile-raid-may-faces-anger-trump-declares-mission-accomplished

[youngmafbog]

He's lost me too Ich.

Unfortunately there is no telling some if they get a conspiracy type theory in their head.

[ichkeria]

That video is typical nonsense.
"Question everything" means confuse everyone.
She damns the White Helmets because they are funded by the US, UK etc: that sort of "criticism" only hits home with people like Jeremy Corbyn for whom those countries are the devil incarnate. Sounds like a plus to me: and they "have weapons and stand near victims" - er, well, what is exactly is that supposed to mean?
There is a whole misguided/malevolent (depending on how kind you want to be) media circus of propaganda designed to rubbish anything the "west" does, despite the blatant fact that the war in Syria is the doing of Assad and of course his enemies fighting back.
As a Labour MP rightly said last night in parliament: the "Stop the War" protests outside parliament yesterday should actually have taken themselves off to the Russian embassy to protest there. But of course, that would be a bit naff for trendy, ultra left wing protesters.

[steg]

///Should May Have Sought Parliamentary Approval?///

No, I would imagine she followed the correct procedures.

[Khandro]

I suspect that even people on the ground don't know what's going on. Imagine a scenario where the attack wasn't a chemical one (which I intuitively believe because it makes no sense with the war all but won)
What would Assad's enemies not give to get into that bomb site and sprinkle a few chemicals around?

[ichkeria]

I will only repeat what I said earlier: the White Helmets are a bona fide group of brave volunteers, and the black propaganda that is hurled at them is shameful.

[ichkeria]

I did watch the video, hence my branding it as nonsense.
The reputable fact-checking website Snopes has checked and repudiated just about every single piece of negative "news" about the Helmets (SCD), including the accusation they carry arms.

And you might care to look at the following:

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-eva-bartletts-claims-about-syrian-children

[ichkeria]

So that is Eva Bartlett, bless her: she collaborates with UK jourmalist Vanessa Beeley, a groupie of the Assad regime who writes pro-Assad stuff from her base in Syria, and has described meeting President Assad as one of the best moments of her life (I can actually understand that: power can be exciting).
So, no reason to believe that these accounts might be biased at all :-)

[-Talbot-]

I will freely admit I have no idea who if anyone is telling the truth.
Interesting though to read how vehemently those that think they know the truth will defend their particular assertions

[ichkeria]

Spathi you blithely accept as ‘fact’ the words of a journalist whose ‘evidence’ has been reputable called into serious question. It is clear where the channel 4 stuff comes from. Why not ask where Ms Bartlett and others get their material from? There have as far as I can make out been two incidents of ‘unprofessionalism’ by the Whites, and in one of those the person responsible was booted out.
It is good to question things, but as I’ve said before it is NOT good to do so merely by casting unsubstantiated doubt on things for ones own nefarious aims with no evidence to back it up. And that is what people like this so.

[dannyk13]

With regard to the White Helmets, there have been plenty of newscasts, from all channels, showing them rescuing victims from bombed out buildings.