Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Voices from the grave....

The question of whether the Prime Minister should be brought to book for taking us to war in Iraq is once again being raised. The usual arguments are being put forward - on the one side, that the WMD case was clearly "dodgy" from the outset, that Parliament was at best misled, and at worst deliberately lied to, and on the other that a particularly vicious dictator has been removed, and that the Iraqis have for the first time been able to hold democratic elections. What never seems to get mentioned or weighed in the balance is that some 30,000 Iraqis have been killed as a result of what we did, or assisted in the doing of. Who speaks for them? Does anybody care?

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