Falkirk MP John McNally accused David Cameron “arrogance” while East MP Martyn Day said strikes against the country will only cause more human suffering.
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The Prime Minister said the group, also known as Isil and Isis, was “neither a true representation of Islam nor is it a state”.
Mr Pugh said: “All those factors have to be taken into account, but that being said we are already bombing ISIL in Iraq”.
SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson urged the BBC to refer to the terror group as Daesh. Of course everyone wants to see the end to Daesh, but the United Kingdom government has been running scared from scrutiny on their plans which don’t stack up. “We look forward to having British forces flying with the Coalition over Syria, and will work to integrate them into our Coalition Air Tasking Orders as quickly as possible”, he said. “The special relationship between the U.S. and the United Kingdom is rooted in our shared values and mutual commitment to global peace, prosperity, and security”, Obama said in a statement. “As a result a number of questions were presented to the Prime Minister and today a majority of committee members agreed that these questions had not been answered”.
“I firmly believe it is in our national interest and the right thing to do to extend air strikes into Syria, and that is why I will be voting in favour tonight”.
“A major concern is that further bombing may only act to destabilise the area even more and play into the hands of the extremists”.
Resisting for weeks, the Pentagon has finally admitted that “advisers” in Syria will be involved in military ops, but the U.S. still remains cagey on strategic specifics. The coalition also struck targets in 11 other Iraqi cities, including Fallujah, Sinjar and Mosul.
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All eyes will be on Labour MPs tonight, with Mr Cameron reliant on votes from the party’s MPs if he is to get the vote through.
