Britain's already lukewarm popular support for the Libyan war is now suffering growing unease amid a stepped up Western military offensive against the country.
The UK government has played a prominent role in launching an invasion against the embattled North African country since the 19 March outset of UN-sanctioned military intervention, which is now fully supervised by NATO military alliance.
However, rifts have appeared to be developing, in recent weeks within the international community and UN Security Council, with some members claiming the UK and other nations are stretching the mandate's definition.
This comes as Britain dispatched military advisers last week to help the Libyan revolutionary forces to attack Muammar Qaddafi's troops and facilities more decisively.
Britain's lower house of parliament, the House of Commons held a debate on March 21st on how to proceed with the UN Resolution against Libya, a motion which garnered 557 votes in favour of intervention, with only 13 against.
But, British parliamentarians across the political spectrum are increasingly concerned about the future of the invasion, particularly in light of a joint-statement issued by British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and US President Barak Obama on April 15, that said anything less than Libyan ruler Muammar Qaddafi's ouster would be “unconscionable betrayal”.
“There has been a clear defining of objectives on regime change and on taking one particular side in a civil war,” opposition Labour MP Graham Stringer, who voted for intervention, has told Foreign Secretary William Hague during a debate at the Commons.
During the same House of Commons session, Stringer's colleague Labour MP John McDonnell, who opposed intervention, decried the operation as appearing “a blood-soaked political shambles.”
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