Trump, now the world’s conscience and bleeding heart, declares that we must not allow the normalisation of chemical weapons and puppet May concurs, having won over her Cabinet, but not daring first to put it to Parliament. Thus, she has her Falklands moment and hopes it will be as beneficial to her as it was to her idol, Thatcher.

Just as Bliar would not wait for the outcome of the UN WMD inspection team in Iraq, so she and Trump will not await the report of the UN chemical weapons inspection team in Damascus.

These hypocrites assume we have no memory of recent history.

The Labour government did not have completely clean hands over the Vietnam War, but at least we were kept out of direct involvement. But we kept quiet when the US liberally used chemical weapons in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, dropping agent orange defoliant, never mind that it poisoned thousands of people and left a legacy of birth defects for generations.

We deplored Saddam Husain’s use of chemical weapons on Iraqi Kurds in Halabja in 1988, failing to mention that we had supplied him with the ingredients used in their manufacture.

Saddam was an OK guy at that time when he used chemical weapons on Iranian soldiers.  Saddam was bastard, but he was OUR bastard and so OK.