I sometimes wonder who these World Leaders talk to when they go on tours of foreign hot-spots. Brown, who recently claimed to have met all the big players, confidently told us only a week ago or so ago that the British army will be out of Iraq by July. It seems that Gordon Brown forgot to ask the Iraqi Parliament, who have just decided, in effect, that the army has to have implemented its marching orders by New Year. It will be interesting to see how the great democrat responds to this mother of all votes by the Iraqis. Looks like we are going to have that long awaited inquiry into the circumstances of how we got into Iraq a bit sooner than the government was bargaining for.
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SeasideMan
Pro - 2008-12-20 @ 13:43:30
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jenray
Pro - http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- 2008-12-20 @ 16:46:21
Chaotic isn't the word for it...a farce is more like it...I doubt very much whether an enquiry will indict anybody in the government though they darned well deserve it for taking us into a war with trumped up excuses for it...and, as somebody pointed out today on answers to Question Time on the radio, the original demand was that Saddam Hussein could stay if he removed all his weapons of mass destruction, so the reason that we went in to remove him is unfounded as we were quite prepared to let him stay if he did as we demanded...later discovered to be just what he did do...if anybody in the government does get blamed for taking us into the war, where does that leave the Americans as it was they who we followed into it? Hmmm...quick to indict war criminals in other countries but far less willing to do it in our own clearly...
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wendlane
- http://www.moondustandangels.co.uk
- 2008-12-20 @ 18:43:16
There were never any weapons of mass destruction it is all a lie and only the innocent will pay, not the liars
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Munzly
- http://poppycock.blog.co.uk/
- 2008-12-21 @ 05:55:01
Tony Blair and any members of his cabinet who shared in the decision to invade Iraq, should be arraigned as war criminals. I've no doubt that they would be found guilty just on the publicly known facts, let alone their nasty little secrets. Obviously the same applies to the US government of the time, only more so.
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Such an enquiry can't come soon enough as far as I am concerned. A member of my family had such bad PTSD after his return from Iraq, because of all the atrocities he witnessed and was forced to take part in, that he almost succeeded at suicide and is still on ant-depressants 3 years later. I am firmly convinced that he and all the others were sent there under false pretenses and some bastards somewhere need to pay for it and preferably at the very highest levels.
Tom.