Showing posts with label Iraq enquiry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq enquiry. Show all posts

Friday, 5 March 2010

BROWN DEFENDS THE INDEFENSIBLE

The other day as I was driving ( actually, being driven) to work in Leeds by a colleague we heard a harrowing account on the Today programme of the many hundreds of birth defects in Fallujah, razed to the ground by US troops at the height of the Iraq conflict, as a consequence o the obscene amount of bombing and the weapons used..
Many thousands have died and the war itself generally regarded as a horrendous mistake which many Labour MPs now wish they had not supported. Not so Gordon Brown.
In defending Tony Blair's decision to go to war in 2003, he has disappointed many who believed somehow he had been coerced into supporting this illegal and unforgivable act .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8552593.stm