Cameron would agree to safe passage out of Syria for Assad

I feel much the same about Mr Cameron.

And yet Julian Assange...
Wrong kind of war crimes I guess

He's basically standing in McDonalds, enjoying a greasy Big Mac, while lecturing the world about the evils of junk food.

And soon to clinch a deal for more weapons of destruction so that another regime can intimidate it's own people.

They all swim in the same cesspit.

You couldn't make this up.....

Which unfortunately can't be said of Cameron, since he seems to make up party and UK policy as he goes along.

Yeah, safe passage to the Hague!

Clown Cameron should be the one seeking safe passage.

the prime minister said he would agree to "anything" to see Assad removed from power.

"Anything" would of course include an Islamist government and sharia law in Syria.

Christians make up circa 20% of the Syrian population. As in Iraq, their freedom was until recently guaranteed by a secular Ba'athist government. Now, thanks to Obama, Clinton and Haig, the Islamists are soon to take over. Cameron is yet another western fathead happy to let minorities go to hell as long as he gets his Saudi oil and arms contracts.

Sick to death of this lot. Revolution needed in the UK.

Hypocracy of the highest order... surely Assange's (alleged) crimes pale into insignificance compared to Assad's well-documentated atrocities? David Cameron should be publicly flogged at noon each Friday as a lesson to the rest of his ilk!

He'll say anything to sell some planes.

SAFE PASAGE......?

Does anyone remember that guy... whats his name....? ahhh TONY BALIR, nearly forgot him if it wasn’t for all the blood on his hands.

The audacity to have murderers roaming around the world giving lectures, earning millions who have MURDERED MILLIONS OF INNOCENT MEN, WOMAN & CHILDREN and then say we can do the same for you!!!!!!! ASTONISHING!!!

Well done Mr PM you are really living up to your predecessors.

SHAMELESS

does safe passage gives assad immunity
will assad still be subject to int law/justice whatever?
forget about int law/justice forget about the dead - just get him out of there.. (its like DC is above the law or any country that gives safe passage, that's like the same as aiding the enemy, ("bradly mannig charge for aiding the enemy")...

Not a war crime, a rape accusation or two.

Not even a rape accusation. Serious (although the actual charges seem pretty minor) sexual assault

Downing Street is likely to point out that François Hollande, the French president, made an identical trip to Jeddah two days ago. France aggressively promotes its arms trade.

...on the other hand, if sir doesn't wish to purchase any weapons of mass destruction we do a most appetising home-made range of Jeddah Cheese...

In remarks released as he arrived in Saudi Arabia – a country which is a strong supporter of the Syrian opposition –

Saudiarabia, a backward, sharia wielding, misogynist, torture friendly, oppressive, absolute monarchy has got a nice image makeover in Guardian as a ' a country which is a strong supporter of the Syrian opposition'.
The power of petrodollars......

I smell the stench of sulphur....

My understanding of the situation is that it is the problems relate to "the regime" and that the departure of one individual, even from the top) will not actually resolve much because "the regime" is still there. I believe these situations need real solutions rather that PR statements designed to sound good to everybody but with no proposals to resolve the issues. Do Cameron really think that as soon as Assad departs Syria that opposing sides will be kissing and making-up and live in peace from then on ? Naiveté helps nobody.

The elite meets the elite. Cameron tells the Saudis go on persecuting your Shias we don't mind. At the same time he wants to remove a secular regime from a developing country and replace it with a rag bag of Islamist fundamentalists, foreign thugs and a Sunni elite on a promise from the Gulf states. What will Cameron do for the Christians, Shias, Jews and other notorious unbelievers who were left behind to face Sunni fanaticism? Sweet Frances Adam. It's disgusting that we had anything to do with these nasty hijacking, beheading Onanists.

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If helps to get rid of this blood-thirsty tyrant, why not?

Reminds me Eddie Izzard talking about mass murderers:

You know, we think if somebody kills someone, that's murder, you go to prison. You kill 10 people, you go to Texas, they hit you with a brick, that's what they do. 20 people, you go to a hospital, they look through a small window at you forever. And over that, we can't deal with it, you know? Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning. I can't even get down the gym! Your diary must look odd: “Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death – lunch- death, death, death -afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower…"

The arrogance of such statements seems lost on mainstream media journos. Which sums up their own view.

> We are a government under international law and we obey the law.

Really? Was it all crap about denying the ECHR?

Dave just can't stop himself being the all-things-to-all-men blabbermouth marketing man, can he? He's in one of the most politically sensitive regions of the world, where using phrases such as 'I'd do anything' is just going to make him seem a bit of a bumpkin. Who does he think he's talking to? Embarrassing.

He's lying. They wont let him go

Four more of Assad's generals escaped to Turkey today. How many generals does he have?

surely Assange's (alleged) crimes pale into insignificance

Assange is an alleged sex pest.

Britain would be prepared to allow Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, to be given safe passage to a third country, it has emerged, as fears rise that a prolonged conflict will fuel extremism.

This is a tacit acknowledgement by the British Imperialists that they have failed in dislodging Assad with their satraps.

He'd probably give the Assads sanctuary as well, like Thatcher did for Pinochet.
The Tory party: the dictator's friend.

So Cameron is meeting with the bloated tyrant of a state where women are property, "sorcerers" are beheaded and which funds an ideology of hatred globally?

Too late as it won't make the slightest bit of difference because it's a civil war with ethnic and religious overtones. Assad is just part of the problem, the real problem being the third parties who are supplying the guns and mercenaries, who once Assad is gone will want to ethnically cleanse the country of Allawites, christians and Shias and impose their own brand on the country whether they want it or not. The west and Cameron in particular will have no say in the outcome as even the Americans are beginning to accept that it is spinning out of their control and is likely to become another Iraq or Libya.

These people know what they want

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfaFvXFdGbM&feature=g-all-u

Hey Camoron why don't you stay with Assad in Syria and don't come back. Your missus and his missus will get on just fine.....and one more thing don't come back!

I nearly choked on my coffee when I read that Cameron has stated that Iran getting WMDs would start an arms race in the Middle East which would be a disaster. I'm sure what he meant to say was that Britain should be the one that starts an arms race in the middle east and just to prove it, here we are selling weapons to those friends of democracy, the Saudis. You couldn't make it up.

He could stay at my flat with his tasty wife, haha!
Bloody ridiculous what our leaders are getting up to these days!

tosser tories at it agian

How about allowing the referendum to take place, and allow Assad to modernise by way of the introduction of circa 9 political parties? Nope that won't do, not in an energy barren country such as the UK. Syria can't have democracy as the US, UK and NATO need it to be a client state, completely in chaos (think Libya) with an equally corrupt bunch of thugs (think Libya)..

Yeah and we let him, him and his ilk.

Cameron would sell his Grandmother if HE benefited from it. A wanker with power, prowling the world stage and I utterly detest the bastard.

"safe passage out of Syria for Assad" - surely we have got this up-side-down.

Safe passage for all Syrian who are victims of Assad's killing machine!

So there'll be no mention of the Saudi funded Salafists then, eh Dave?

We are a government under international law and we obey the law

Hmm. I should lend him my copy of the Big Girl's Bumper Book of International Justice. I'd even bookmark a couple of the relevant chapters.

"Britain would be prepared to allow Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, to be given safe passage"

Why? Does Britian own the middle east now? Or has the colonial menatility not gone yet?

Just wondering - should we not be makin an effort to join forces with lesser evils in order to help handle what is a dire situation? As horrible a kingdom Saudi may be, people there arn't dying at the rate of the Syrians. If the rebels were to join forces with those other rebels they don't really approve of maybe Assad could be finished by now. Maybe then other problems could be addressed (like the lesser tyrant regimes). Just a thought

"Britain would be prepared to allow Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, to be given safe passage to a third country, it has emerged, as fears rise that a prolonged conflict will fuel extremism"

Fuel extremism you mean like Mitt Romney in the US being the Chiristian extremist? Are we going to send funds for a revolution to the american militias too if he gets into the white house?

If you want peace in the region - stop all arms supplies to it. No weapons no explosions and no killings. Simply really.

Impose all the sanctions on the arms dealers benefiting from this civil war.

I agree it Will be a great day when Cameron is gone