Syria: Miliband accused of 'playing politics' over refusal to back Cameron MPs were due to debate the issue in Parliament today and vote on the principle of military strikes. However, Mr Miliband has told Sky News that he will order his MPs to vote for the Labour amendment. He said that he is not willing to have the mistakes of the Iraq war and its build-up "made again." "People will remember the mistakes that were made in Iraq and I'm not willing to have those mistakes made again," Mr Miliband said. And one of the most important lessons from Iraq is about giving the United Nations...the proper chance to do its work and I believe that if we try to make that decision today on military action we wouldn't have been giving the United Nations the proper time to do that work. He added: "The right thing to do is to put forward Labour's amendment." He said he is not "against" military action and that the actions of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad "can't simply be ignored." But if we are to undertake military action then certain conditions would have to be met and what our amendment does today is it lays out a roadmap to a decision for Britain on the conditions that would have to be met. Asked which way he will be telling his MPs to vote in the Commons Mr Miliband said: "I'll be advising my party to vote for our amendment." A Labour source added: "We will be pressing ahead with our amendment. We believe it gives a clearer road map [and] sets out clearer criteria of what must be done before any military action is taken. Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister,said he is "wrestling" with the decision of whether to support military action. He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "A terrible war crime has been committed a week ago. We face a judgment, a choice, everybody does by the way, every single MP. I'm struggling with this, I'm wrestling with this. He added: "These are no easy choices to make and there is no risk-free choice to make." Mr Clegg said all the evidence, including the JIC findings that are being published today, showed that Syrian opposition forces were not capable of carrying out the chemical attack. He told LBC 97.3: "All the evidence, and we will publish the findings of the Joint Intelligence Committee, their key findings, later this morning, all the evidence points in the same direction, namely that the opposition could not have done this. They didn't have control over the chemical stockpiles, they didn't have the weaponry in the artillery to deliver them in the way that they were delivered. It was in a part of Damascus, an eastern suburb of Damascus which has been subject to shelling by regime forces for several days before the attack took place and several days afterwards as well. Asked if he would support the use of force, Mr Clegg said: "Once we've heard from the weapons inspectors, once we've brought this to the UN security council ... if then the case is made that the only way we can respond, the most effective way we can respond, in a legal, proportionate and targeted fashion to deter the further use of chemical weapons, is an isolated, one-off military initiative then I will vote for that." There were "legal, moral and other grounds" to support action without a UN resolution, he added. The Prime Minister was on Wednesday forced to say he will now wait for a report by United Nations weapons inspectors before seeking the approval of MPs for "direct British involvement" in the Syrian intervention. Downing Street said the decision to wait for the UN was based on the "deep concerns" the country still harbours over the Iraq War. MPs had been recalled to vote on a motion on Thursday expected to sanction military action. In a statement on Wednesday night Downing Street said that it only wanted to proceed on a "consensual basis" and was now wary about becoming embroiled in another divisive conflict in the Middle East in the wake of Iraq. The climbdown was an embarrassment for Mr Cameron as he was determined to play a leading role in British military strikes, which had been expected this weekend. The Times newspaper has reported that a Government source said of Mr Miliband: "No 10 and the Foreign Office think Miliband is a f****** **** and a copper-bottomed s***." Labour had on Wednesday demanded the Prime Minister agree to hold a second vote in the Commons after the UN inspectors concluded their work. MPs will today be asked to support the Government's motion which states that a "strong humanitarian response is required from the international community and that this may, if necessary, require military action that is legal, proportionate and focused on saving lives by preventing and deterring further use of Syria's chemical weapons."