I was one of the many millions in this country who opposed the Iraq war and of course the Afghanistan war. I was never convinced that Sadam Hussein was more than a minor irritant. Vicious, brutal and power mad he may have been but he was only ever in the second division when it came to dictators and despite his many faults, many of the Iraqi people liked him. His kind of "strong leadership" is popular in much of the Middle East or at least they often profess to do so. And anyway, lets not forget, he was the West's boy. We put him there, we armed him and kept him there. When he went to war against Iran he used weapons of mass destruction that we in the West had provided against Iran. Little wonder that there is such suspicion of the current motives of the UK by the Iranian leader, the Man inna dinner jacket. Tens of thousands of Iranians were killed by weapons supplied by the USA and Britain.
I have never perceived any real Glory in war. Death, mutilation, starvation, refugees, innocent bystanders, cruelty humiliation and torture for sure, but no glory and as usual, the first victim of the war was truth. And if ever lies were a weapon of mass destruction then Tony B Liar was the very effective delivery system. We all saw him posturing in Parliement, then posturing with W Bush and even eventually, posturing and posing for photo ops with "our brave boys" out in Iraq. For me and many others this was the final straw from Blair. He had let down the Labour party and all those who remained loyal during the lean times the Beast Thatcher, then when in power he had let down all those who had voted for him, making the mistake that this time, this politician would be different. Alas it was not to be, he carried on with Thatchers policies of privatisation and market freedom, and paid only lip service to the Environment. Talk is cheap and never cheaper than when he lied in order to go to war to help his Champanzee friend Bush.
Now before you get the wrong idea about me, i must stress that i am not a Peacenik. I have had several soldier friends and i have always respected them for their courage and the difficult choices they made. I believe that we should have an Army because who else would defend us if we were attacked or threatened. Certainly not the likes of Bush unless we had oil of course. And if we have an army, we should train them well in peacekeeping as well as warmaking. We should clothe and equip them to the highest standerd possible and we should not send them into danger for trivial reasons.
Sadly we have let them down, or at least the likes of Blair and Brown have let them down. We sent them into battle in Iraq for no reason other than a pack of lies and exaggerations. We skimped on body armour and all kinds of weaponry. We over stretched them individually and regimentally. We expected miracles when we knew they were only flesh and blood. We sent them against an invisible enemy, strong and secure in its own territory and then feighned shock and surprise when they were injured and killed in their hundreds. Shame on you Blair the warmonger and Brown the apologist
You cannot win a war against a people who you have invaded and overun even when people are killed by the hundreds of thousands. Sooner or later they will repay the complement and gain strenghth and allies who will join them in their hatred and quest for vengeance. Bush and Blair and their ilk have made the USA and the UK hated in the middle east and lowered our reputation in many other parts of the world and made us a target. And all for the sake of oil which does not belong to us.
It would be nice to think that now we and the Americans are leaving Iraq, the country could get back to normal but I have my doubts. And now that are concentrating all our force on Afghanistan we will only compound our mistakes. Britain tried long ago to subdue Afghanistan and despite our power and weaponry we failed abysmally. Even the monster that is or at least was the Russian Red Army, the biggest military power in the world could not bring them to heal. How can we in the UK or the USA think that we have the secret which the previous invaders lacked? How can we think that we can ever really win? Its time to get out now, not next year but now.
I have never perceived any real Glory in war. Death, mutilation, starvation, refugees, innocent bystanders, cruelty humiliation and torture for sure, but no glory and as usual, the first victim of the war was truth. And if ever lies were a weapon of mass destruction then Tony B Liar was the very effective delivery system. We all saw him posturing in Parliement, then posturing with W Bush and even eventually, posturing and posing for photo ops with "our brave boys" out in Iraq. For me and many others this was the final straw from Blair. He had let down the Labour party and all those who remained loyal during the lean times the Beast Thatcher, then when in power he had let down all those who had voted for him, making the mistake that this time, this politician would be different. Alas it was not to be, he carried on with Thatchers policies of privatisation and market freedom, and paid only lip service to the Environment. Talk is cheap and never cheaper than when he lied in order to go to war to help his Champanzee friend Bush.
Now before you get the wrong idea about me, i must stress that i am not a Peacenik. I have had several soldier friends and i have always respected them for their courage and the difficult choices they made. I believe that we should have an Army because who else would defend us if we were attacked or threatened. Certainly not the likes of Bush unless we had oil of course. And if we have an army, we should train them well in peacekeeping as well as warmaking. We should clothe and equip them to the highest standerd possible and we should not send them into danger for trivial reasons.
Sadly we have let them down, or at least the likes of Blair and Brown have let them down. We sent them into battle in Iraq for no reason other than a pack of lies and exaggerations. We skimped on body armour and all kinds of weaponry. We over stretched them individually and regimentally. We expected miracles when we knew they were only flesh and blood. We sent them against an invisible enemy, strong and secure in its own territory and then feighned shock and surprise when they were injured and killed in their hundreds. Shame on you Blair the warmonger and Brown the apologist
You cannot win a war against a people who you have invaded and overun even when people are killed by the hundreds of thousands. Sooner or later they will repay the complement and gain strenghth and allies who will join them in their hatred and quest for vengeance. Bush and Blair and their ilk have made the USA and the UK hated in the middle east and lowered our reputation in many other parts of the world and made us a target. And all for the sake of oil which does not belong to us.
It would be nice to think that now we and the Americans are leaving Iraq, the country could get back to normal but I have my doubts. And now that are concentrating all our force on Afghanistan we will only compound our mistakes. Britain tried long ago to subdue Afghanistan and despite our power and weaponry we failed abysmally. Even the monster that is or at least was the Russian Red Army, the biggest military power in the world could not bring them to heal. How can we in the UK or the USA think that we have the secret which the previous invaders lacked? How can we think that we can ever really win? Its time to get out now, not next year but now.
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