Should we bomb De-ash/ISIS in Syria?

Yes I heard that Jen, also how Asaad will have shot anyone who films in hospitals and how the people will not go into a compound because they are targeted

What they said, Annie, was that the coalition is forcing ISIS back into Aleppo and places like it. There are no ISIS there now, but if they keep bombing ISIS in Iraq, it will make them come back to Aleppo. The people in Aleppo are being attacked from both sides. Quite terrible.

Did you notice what he said about calling them Daesh. That's how you find out if someone is an ISIS sympathiser, because he gets upset at the name Daesh. Hope they never learn to control their annoyance.

www.medicsunderfire.org has some quite appalling statistics.

Who is killing medics in Syria?
97.4% by the Syrian government
1% by the opposition
1% unknown
0.6% by ISIS

Jen, it was torture to listen to those poor people. So Asaad is far more feared than IS

Took notes all the way through.

www.whitehelmets.org
www.medicsunderfire.org

Over a thousand people watching. Hoped there would be more, but obviously better things to do.

Very scary. I particularly worry about the idea of dehumanising people in Syria, to make it seem less important when Syrian civilians die, compared with when we hear about the French or Americans.
The poor kids, not being able to go to school because the attacks begin at 9 in the morning, so they are told to go home. Mosques and schools being attacked by Assad and Russia because they want to destroy the people who are against Assad.
When they are attacked, they know whether it is a Russian or Assad missile because of the angle of the missile.
Lots of ideas; I just hope somebody important was listening.

Jen , hope you can remember the sites being given , I couldn't grab a pen in time . At this minute I can only think - God help them

Aleppo live on youtube in 40 minutes.

Great questions put forward Jen

Another link.

thesyriacampaign.org/#

Tomorrow at 4 p.m. GMT someone is going to be on facebook direct from Aleppo.

This is the facebook event.

www.facebook.com/events/1656051307967406/

Like one of them says, "Everyone is talking about us; nobody is listening to us."

Yes I think the same

This is the government response to an online petition about the Iraq war.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/108495?reveal_response=yes#response-threshold

Anyone else think that the response means the government is covering its back?

By the way, the petition is still open to be signed.

www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/08/david-attenborough-laments-dreadful-uk-bombing-campaign

I agree with David.

This I can believe fully and confirms by beliefs

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/12/arming-islamic-state-facts-and-figures/

An Amnesty report on how IS get their arms. The actual report is 16 pages long, but this says from 25 different countries.

That Tory MP beat it to it,- we must vote to bomb , we need to be back on the world stage , what a reason to bomb

www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/22445

However, it's okay because Osborne says that Britain has got its mojo back.

I'm actually not sure whether that should be allowed to stay up.

I do wonder how people source these unpleasant sites.

So now we have links to Gordon Duff. Ye Gods.

realorsatire.com/veteranstoday-com/

Some of the comments in response to the article are vile.

Maybe durhamjen agrees with them.

ps and people believe Assad?

Assad says it is illegal, as neither he nor the UN have given permission for this.
well, you really couldn't make that up could you!!
What a nerve!

www.veteranstoday.com/2015/12/07/coalition-air-attack-hits-syrian-army-base-16-dead/

Assad says it is illegal, as neither he nor the UN have given permission for this.

gj his approach took me back a bit when I first read the Guardian article and then realised he was right, especially when Assad controls so little territory than previously. But then although I agreed with Nicolas Henin, I also heard a speaker explaining the difficulties for many of the Syrian rebels who would effectively be asked to fight on two fronts - Assad and Daesh.

There is no simple solution and it's all academic now the air strikes have started.

Time will tell