Issue link: https://htpgraphics.uberflip.com/i/464860
AGRICULTURE EDITION 61 REVIEW OF PARLIAMENT | without a UN resolution would be a return to the law of the jungle. Respect's George Galloway said the attack could have been the work of the Syrian rebels – and there was public unease over the prospect of supporting them. 'Take a look at the video of one of the commanders of the Syrian revolution cutting open the chest of a human being and eating his heart and liver. … Take a look at the videos of Christian priests having their heads sawn off – not chopped off; sawn off with breadknives… Every religious minority in Syria – there are 23 of them – is petrified at the thought of a victory for the Syrian rebels.' The senior Tory Sir Edward Leigh said MPs were speaking for a public that did not want war: 'They are scarred by what went on in Iraq. We were lied to in parliament and we are not going to go down that route again. I voted against the Iraq war and I will vote against this one.' The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg wound up the debate, insisting the government motion was not an amber light for a military strike: 'Iraq casts a long shadow, but it would be a double tragedy if the memory of that war now caused us to retreat from the laws and conventions that govern our world, many of which the United Kingdom helped to author.' But, a few moments later, MPs voted down Labour's amendment, and then, much more narrowly, the government's own motion. In the USA the unwillingness of their main military ally to join the intervention produced startled headlines: 'The British Aren't Coming!' noted one newspaper. The Commons' verdict undoubtedly Senior Tory Sir Edward Leigh said MPs were speaking for a public that did not want war The war in Syria continues, along with a massive humanitarian catastrophe