Air strikes

[John Pruden]

any thoughts on Syria chemical plants?? jp

[Keith Tindell]

We wait for the next move John, lets hope it won't kick off from there, kt

[John Pruden]

Syria will find bodies of women and children and blame the three countries for their deaths i have noticed no pictures from the bomb sites or are they to dangerous to film there without gas proof clothing that would prove chemical weapons are there? jp

[Keith at Tregenna]

Seems Russian reinforcements head for Syria: Warships laden with tanks, military trucks and armoured patrol boats sail towards the Middle East as the world awaits Putin's response to airstrikes.

K.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi John P.
Plenty of pics of the damage on our TV , which included some soldiers standing around NO face masks. The three plants had been stripped three days before thanks to the Idiots warning. Around $800 million for three buildings not a bad investment for the arms manufacturers.
Now something else from our TV, it showed Russian soldiers and hundreds of civilians celebrating the defeat of the rebels in the streets of Duma, which they captured last week, so where the hell were those kids gassed as everyone is saying it was in Duma. The United nations convoy was entering an underground parking area at the time.
Cheers Des

[j.sabourn]

All this talk about gas and how it has been outlawed. Does this not also go back to the Geneva convention. Mustard gas was used extensively in the First World War on the Western Front, and in the UK during the Second World War every civilian was supplied with a gas mask. Babies were supplied with special ones where the whole carrying basket was the mask. I started with a Mickey Mouse one until graduated to the grownup version. I can’t ever remember a gas raid being incorporated in the uk however, maybe they were we used to put on masks initially on the first siiren going, but later didn’t bother. Maybe the soldiers standing around are wearing their Mickey Mouse or similar masks and no one has noticed the difference . Cheers JWS.

[j.sabourn]

#4... Keith , reckon you should be standing by for a summons to appear at your nearest recruiting depot, to be issued with a rifle and 6 rounds, the bayonet may be optional, and told it is your duty to stop those vessels reaching their objective. Good luck ! JWS.

[robpage]

I've always thought of Putin being as he's an ex KGB officer as being a great Russian patriot and what he's doing is showing the strength of Russia . In the west we've stood back and watched him do his sabre-rattling and the annexation of the Crimea and I expect that he thought he could go on forever and get away with it . Unfortunately I think we have a guy in the White House who can be unpredictable so it makes for a quite awkward combination but I don't think that Putin is an idiot so I honestly suspect that he would take us to the brink but not beyond it

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi John.
I don't know if the USA still has any oil wells in the Middle East, but I would say they want back in; as fracking for shale oil is killing the water table in the US of A. But one can't rely on Trump who changes his mind every minute of the day, one minute he is pulling out of Syria the next he wants in again. James Coony's book will make interesting reading, has anyone seen Trumps wife lately? As for gas and chemical attacks and the dastardly leaders who use them, there was a program on Tv last night showing the huge number of children in Vietnam who are still being born with no legs or arms and cripples for life after all those tons of agent Orange was dropped all over the country the Geneva convention was still in force then as well.
Cheers Des

[robpage]

Because there is so much fake news about fracking out there particularly from some of the extremities of the environmentalists and the greenies I'll try to read as much as I can on the subject because fracking has been around at least since the 1950s . There has been groundwater pollution but that has always seemed to have been related to spills and blowout as opposed to vertical seepage so it's not down to the geology it's down too accidental leakage . The other huge point when it comes to water is that to Frank uses vast amount of water of which 30% stays down in deep layers so if you were in a water scarce area you are using a natural resource that is already scarce maybe they should drill for underground water first