Whilst Iraq descends day by day into deepening bloody chaos, the Prime Minister and Government appear to be looking on frozen by the enormity of the tragic consequences of their error of judgement in supporting the US invasion.
Nobody in Government, including Blair and Brown, seems to have a clue what to do next.
Bizarrely the Bush regime is now publicly comparing the situation in Iraq with Vietnam.
Only last week Blair rejected the early withdrawal of British troops, arguing that Britain will not "cut and run." Within less than a week this has now changed to a withdrawal in possibly 12 months.
Apparently without even informing the Blair government Bush is preparing for the withdrawal of US troops at least to base. The aim of the Bush regime is to minimise US losses whilst maintaining sufficient presence to protect the flow of oil into US oil company coffers.
Isn't it time that the Prime Minister admits that the decision to support the US invasion of Iraq was the greatest political misjudgement since the second world war?
There are rumours leaking out that supporters of the Chancellor of the Exchequer are using the tragic, disaster of Iraq as a lever to speed the Prime Minister's retirement. The argument being deployed is that a change of strategy on Iraq requires a change of leader.
Many agree with this assessment. However many will also judge that changing to someone who voted for and actively supported the dreadful mistake of invading Iraq is both futile and irrational.
Surely the changes that are needed are a change in policy from war to peace and a change in leader from someone who failed our party and our country by supporting this misguided war to someone who had the judgement and principle not to.
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After watching newsnight last night (Monday) I am intrigued that the current administraation (both UK and US)now seem to be retreating from Iraq at an alarming speed.
Entering without an exit stratgy is unforgivable but noe to leave thecountry well and truely in "it" is not acceptble.
The current Iraq government wants the troops to remain, but I think this is only to prop the puppet government up for their own means.
Whats the alternative John?
The end of 07 is now fast becoming the target date for the withdrawl of UK/US troops, I dont think this is feasable without allowing desent into a bloody civil war and thebreak up of Iraq leading to de-stabilisation of the East.
lasting eace can never be found ddown a gun barrel whilst there are time to use force this is not one of them.
Interesting how this coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Suez crisis.
The emerging evidence of the Sevres protocol, with France enabling a mock invasion of Egypt by Israel in order to justify the British intervention, now illustrates what a phoney war that was and shows us how long the truth can be hidden behind so-called justifications for war.
The crisis that ensued shows proof positive that if you do not hold the high moral ground, any aggressive war is always doomed to end in failure and the fall of the culpable government. Nota bene Mr Blair :- British and French troops left Egypt by December 1956. Eden left office early the next year. It was said of him that he was a weak leader and that he used war to provide an image of strength.
The strength of peace can be found in John McDonnell.
I have just returned from a Labour Students weekend and I, along with many of my left wing comrades remain very concerned at the sitution in Iraq. I had a major debate on the issue with a fellow member and serious issues were raised. Neither of us had the answer to the current problems. However, I do know that staying in Iraq under a banner of, 'completing the mission' is never going to work.
Is total withdrawel the answer? I don't know, but what I believe is that the longer we remain the longer the death and bloodshed will last.
it appears from the news perports that things are changing at the relative (for the government) speed of light (i.e they have finally had a bit of a think about what their anti-war population has been saying since before the Iraq invation even started!) and because of the latest American position on Iraq. I think because we have twenty-four hour news, internet etc these days information flows so fast that decisions are speeding up, even in the case of how (not)to conduct wars.The Bush-Blair alliance have obviously finally woken up to the fact that they cannot sit on this situation knowing they can never win the war in Iraq for years in the way Vietnam was continued for so long after the powers-that-be had concluded it was unwinnable as these days public opinion won't stand for this sort of delay.
We have an anti-war leadership candidate against Blair in John McDonnell and it's time he was properly heard, there should be a window open for him now as the situation has developed in this way.
I see from the Guardian that Barrack Obama the senator from Chicago Illinois ( who had an " easy win in 2004 and immediately became a household name after his great speech although he was relatively unknown until then. I saw on C-span the American tv channel that covers the returns which you can get through the BBC Parliament channel at election times) may be running for President. Hillary Clinton seems to have quite a good campaign going but unlike Obama she did not vote against the war and the race for the Democratic nomination is still wide open but as it says in USA today if Obama stands it will narrow to a straight choice between him and Clinton.
It has been commented that Obama might be " too young" to run at forty-five ...to which his answer was "I don't think anybody is ready to be President before they're President
also of couse JFK was young and relatively inexperienced...it can be an advantage to be "inexperienced" of course as you bring fresh ideas. (If Bush was "experienced" then God help us if we have any more of these sort of candidates! I'm not saying that Obama has the policies of a Howard Dean but it's interesting the way the tide's finally beginning to turn, over here in a less flamboyant but still astonishing way as we have Margaret Beckett's admissions....I think things are changing in a pecularily British way as usual...rather like when John Major went off to watch the cricket, I expect Tony Blair will go off to go on an extended skiing holiday or something before too long, I feel it in my political bones!
As for Blair not admitting his mistake, President Kennedy was famously big enough to admit his mistake over the Bay of Pigs. Gordon Brown and probably Blair as well was reported to be reading the latest Kennedy biography (Dalek's one) when it came out, but I wonder whether they have read any of the books written nearer the time by his aides who provided a lot more detail than the Dalek summary as there have been many ways in which they have been far from emulating him!
John O'Farrell's book "Things Can Only Get Better" speaks of his pub nights with his IWELWITE (I was embarrassingly left wing in the eighties) peer group, perhaps it's not so embarrassing now??
The War against Iraq was not a misjudgement by Blair and Bush,they know exactly what they are doing,exactly like they knew Iraq had no WMD before they invaded.
They are there to spread a faked democracy to the middle east, insert a puppet government and stir up tensions with the locals.
The oil is a secondary factor, the primary reason is to implement a single world government via oblitterating any opposition they may have to their ultimate agenda.
The world is not run by govenments or inderviduals such as Bush and Blair, they are mearly actors pretending.
The real power lies with the Banks and the heads of large corporations.
Did you know America is not a county as such, it is a privately owned corporation and every cent an American pays in (illegal) income tax pays for the intereast on the national debt (the bankers). Every penny spent on (legal)corporation tax funds war.
The bottom line is they do not want peace, they want war, it lines their pockets and pushes them toward their goal of world domination with a completely controlled population too scared to question them or their motives.
It is true that the problem in the middle east has not resulted in peace by invading Iraq - however it remains clear that our continued presence seems to escalate the violence. Therefore if we keep the troups there will it change things? I very much doubt it and we need to listen to people like John if we do not want to see even more soldiers killed. Tony Blair has to face up to this and stop pandering to Bush.
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