I find it deeply ironic that media commentaries are filled with outrage over the selling of the stories of the military personnel captured by the Iranians and yet in a week when more British soldiers are killed and a new round of suicide bombings claims the lives of more Iraqis there is no outrage being vented at those who took us into this disastrous war.
Quite the reverse in fact, the media is currently gearing the country up to accepting as innevitable as their next Prime Minister not only one of those Members of Parliament who voted for this disaster but someone who also wholeheartedly supported the war by delivering the funds needed to prosecute this military aggression.
It is now widely accepted that the decision to implicate Britain in the invasion of Iraq was the most catastrophic foreign policy mistake since Suez. And yet the media only accepts as serious candidates for the leadership of the Labour Party a series of Ministers and ex Ministers, such as Miliband and Clarke, who voted consistently for the war and still support it.
In the light of the 655,000 Iraqi deaths and over 130 British soldiers killed I find it incredulous that anyone who voted for this dreadful act of brutal folly could even consider putting their name forward to lead our Party and country.
The only hope the rump of the New Labour elite has is that Blair can be blamed solely for the war in Iraq and that on his departure their collective guilt will be lifted.
Blair may well have been the originator of the deal to back up Bush's invasion plans but let's be clear every Member of that Cabinet and every Minister had the same choice as Robin Cook. That was to go along with supporting the war or alternatively to stand up for what was right even if it did mean resigning from office and the loss of career.
Those that put career before principle bear responsibility for the consequences of this war and every tragedy that visits itself on both Iraqi and British families.
How can any of them after their behaviour over this critical issue now think that they should be entrusted with the future of our party and country?
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Agree entirely.Four British soldiers die in one day, civilians die and it's now the status quo. Almost not an issue.
I am also sick and tired of reading countless media leadership scenarios involving "serious" candidates.
Yes,they are serious,aren't they?
Seriously conpromised by collusion in going to war.
Seriously supporting unpopular policy decisions
Seriously opposed to socialist policies.
Seriously ignoring the clear wish of the Labour Party to have a fair contest, not a coronation, for the leadership.
Seriously deluded about the way forward for Labour
In an interview I watched earlier on , Campaign Group MP Lynne Jones talked of why she is standing down. She referred to the "dictatorship" of Blair and New Labour. She's right. But all we can do is continue to campaign. And carry on supporting the decent Labour MPs we have left.
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I agree. Brown, Reid, Milliband and many others put their careers before the lives of British and American troops and Iraqi civilians and people are still dying today because of it.
Brown may claim he privately opposed the war and was biding his time to reverse policy but other peoples' lives are not something you can 'bide your time' on - nor was opposition in private worth anything.
If he's prepared to sanction a pointless war and huge numbers of deaths just to ensure a smooth transition from Number 11 to Number 10 then its clear he puts his own ambition above British and Iraqi lives and is no more fit than Blair to be Prime Minister.
As for those MPs who said they believed Blair and thought he must have intelligence he couldnt divulge on Iraq that may be true in some cases - but i'm afraid if it is true it calls into question their political judgement and their ability to stand up for their constituents in the face of party whips.
Blair's lies about the 'flawed methodology' of the Lancet study have been shown up by FOI requests that show MoD scientific advisers said its methodology was tried and tested and if anything would probably lead to an under-estimate of the casualties at around 650,000.
But then it was obvious he was either a shameless liar from the point he began presenting his own personal spin and empty claims as being intelligence reports.
That Gordon Brown went on to pledge 'whatever it takes' in funding for the Iraq war just shows how complicit he is in it.
I'm not sure if the military personnel involved should be paid for selling their stories but I'm glad their stories have been published so that people can see what war/being captured as a hostage is really like; why should that be covered up?? Hopefully it will help to promote the cause of peace as you'd certainly want to stop all wars if you could once you read it; there's no glory in it although the US army still seems to be brainwashed into thinking that they are the world's policeman and that their way is the only way. Put it this way would any parent want their child to end up as gun fodder or just be painfully injured like those in Selly Oak hospital....
surely Lynne Jones should not be giving up now with this going on in her constitunecy by the way I've heard that one of the reasons the wounded soldiers want a military ward instead of being on an NHS one with others which at least means Blair can't sweep teh evidence of his wars under the carpet as if it was just an action film on the telly is that they have been verbally abused by members of the public for going to Iraq in the first place. I don't know what the answer is here but it certainly must be investigated and the views of all sides taken into account.
Another good thing about blogs though I think from what I hear on Radio 4 that the govt and others often ignore them as crazed rantings is that you can state ideas that are only half formed on them, better partly formed than not at all in my view!
Not that these descriptions of what happens to the poor people captured or hit during war is new information as there are many books on the subject ranging from Brian Keenan and co's books describing the horrors of solitary confinement to Simon Weston's with it's description of people being burnt alive in his ship in the Falklands to contemporary blogs such as one I received from a soldier in Iraq describing how the Britsh soldiers had to stand guard outside terrified of sniper fire themselves while the US soldiers leading the operation stayed in with women and girls in a house (after taking the men away) for an hour or more and screams were heard...so you can imagine what may have happened though that would mean the US are commiting rape as a war crime....
even Sue Townsend's latest Adrian Mole ends on a sad note where his son Glenn now in Iraq loses his best friend there after some months there where they are both of course s**t scared the whole time as they are so young and they are constant targets yet they personally have nothing against the Iraqi people. I notice there seems to be a media silence on this instalment instead of the usual rush to film it as there was with the original diaries and The Cappucino Years. It is no longer a comic series it ends just as described above so it's obvious the anti-war point she's making. I got it the Christmas before last so it's not a new book either.
Now that fiction, the arts, comedy etc are all depicting an anti-war message dosen't it remind everyone of the attempts to end Thatcherism which was just as morally wrong in my opinion. On the streets we have stabbings and violence; there were also the Oldham riots and all the sorts of things you get when the people are being treated so badly as we've also seen over in France recently. I hope it dosen't have to get any worse before a reversal starts to happen and people find their consciences again as well as realising that New Labour have in fact been very incompetent in so many ways from squandering the NHS millions to the Gordon Brown's pensions fiasco.
Now that we have the internet news travels so much faster that I hope at least that some good can come out of "globalisation" i.e. country's will not be able to get away with torturing dissenters or trying to foist their versions of "democracy" on people in a dictatorial way. What I mean is that we should scrap Blair and Bush, China etcs idea of globalisation and use technology etc in a good way to bring ideas etc closer together i.e. in a sustainable way not selling off the whole world to MacDonald's etc; I expect you can already see their signs from space as they are the most recognised symbol on teh planet...
my son was recently playing restaurant so he drew a nice restaurant sign for a French restaurant he said it was called Rainbow Restaurant but unfortunately he also put that it was "sponsored by Ben Ten" ( a cartoon on a cable channel!!)
As for paying however many millions it was to be a space tourist I'm sorry but couldn't the bloke in the news have bought George Bush off and stoppped the war in Iraq or done something equally useful with that money....!
Perhaps he should get out more!!!
I'm not sure if the military personnel involved should be paid for selling their stories but I'm glad their stories have been published so that people can see what war/being captured as a hostage is really like; why should that be covered up?? Hopefully it will help to promote the cause of peace as you'd certainly want to stop all wars if you could once you read it; there's no glory in it although the US army still seems to be brainwashed into thinking that they are the world's policeman and that their way is the only way. Put it this way would any parent want their child to end up as gun fodder or just be painfully injured like those in Selly Oak hospital....
surely Lynne Jones should not be giving up now with this going on in her constitunecy by the way I've heard that one of the reasons the wounded soldiers want a military ward instead of being on an NHS one with others which at least means Blair can't sweep teh evidence of his wars under the carpet as if it was just an action film on the telly is that they have been verbally abused by members of the public for going to Iraq in the first place. I don't know what the answer is here but it certainly must be investigated and the views of all sides taken into account.
Another good thing about blogs though I think from what I hear on Radio 4 that the govt and others often ignore them as crazed rantings is that you can state ideas that are only half formed on them, better partly formed than not at all in my view!
Not that these descriptions of what happens to the poor people captured or hit during war is new information as there are many books on the subject ranging from Brian Keenan and co's books describing the horrors of solitary confinement to Simon Weston's with it's description of people being burnt alive in his ship in the Falklands to contemporary blogs such as one I received from a soldier in Iraq describing how the Britsh soldiers had to stand guard outside terrified of sniper fire themselves while the US soldiers leading the operation stayed in with women and girls in a house (after taking the men away) for an hour or more and screams were heard...so you can imagine what may have happened though that would mean the US are commiting rape as a war crime....
even Sue Townsend's latest Adrian Mole ends on a sad note where his son Glenn now in Iraq loses his best friend there after some months there where they are both of course s**t scared the whole time as they are so young and they are constant targets yet they personally have nothing against the Iraqi people. I notice there seems to be a media silence on this instalment instead of the usual rush to film it as there was with the original diaries and The Cappucino Years. It is no longer a comic series it ends just as described above so it's obvious the anti-war point she's making. I got it the Christmas before last so it's not a new book either.
Now that fiction, the arts, comedy etc are all depicting an anti-war message dosen't it remind everyone of the attempts to end Thatcherism which was just as morally wrong in my opinion. On the streets we have stabbings and violence; there were also the Oldham riots and all the sorts of things you get when the people are being treated so badly as we've also seen over in France recently. I hope it dosen't have to get any worse before a reversal starts to happen and people find their consciences again as well as realising that New Labour have in fact been very incompetent in so many ways from squandering the NHS millions to the Gordon Brown's pensions fiasco.
Now that we have the internet news travels so much faster that I hope at least that some good can come out of "globalisation" i.e. country's will not be able to get away with torturing dissenters or trying to foist their versions of "democracy" on people in a dictatorial way. What I mean is that we should scrap Blair and Bush, China etcs idea of globalisation and use technology etc in a good way to bring ideas etc closer together i.e. in a sustainable way not selling off the whole world to MacDonald's etc; I expect you can already see their signs from space as they are the most recognised symbol on teh planet...
my son was recently playing restaurant so he drew a nice restaurant sign for a French restaurant he said it was called Rainbow Restaurant but unfortunately he also put that it was "sponsored by Ben Ten" ( a cartoon on a cable channel!!)
As for paying however many millions it was to be a space tourist I'm sorry but couldn't the bloke in the news have bought George Bush off and stoppped the war in Iraq or done something equally useful with that money....!
Perhaps he should get out more!!!
I have a feeling that giving a real socialist candidate the time of day would not be in the best interests of the fantabulously wealthy and influential media moguls.
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