Still wondering about the reason why the UK went to war in Iraq
BySo the war in Iraq was supported by the UK because Blair, the then Prime Minister, was worried about the Weapons of Mass Destruction. Oh but there weren’t any to be found. Well then it was the hatred of tyranny and terror. Mmm, they didn’t find too much of that either. Sure, they finally found Saddam Hussein in his bolt hole.
There are some small murmurs every now and then questioning the reasons for the UK’s involvement in this war that lead to the death of 1.2 million people. So far. Most of those are innocent civilians. Johann Hari, one of my favourite journalists, has a good article on this in The Independent.
But one thing that is mostly overlooked is that the UK is a democracy and it has houses of Parliament where elected representatives sit earning nice little salaries. And in order to avoid having a Prime Minister go off pop and do something stupid like getting involved in a war that has no purpose whatsoever, these folk get to vote on issues. On issues for instance whether to send ones soldiers off to fight a war that is none of ones or their business.
After all there was no real threat to British safety from Saddam Hussein and his rather motley crew of ragamuffin army folk. But off they went to war regardless. Regardless even of UN disapproval.
The question has to be asked, why did so few people stand up to stop this idiotic action? Isn’t this what the Germans had to suffer after the war. The recrimination about not stopping Hitler, not stopping the Holocaust and not stopping the second World War.
So where are the recriminations this time around? Why is nobody pointing fingers at the British government, all those politicians still getting their pay, not having to be accountable for the deaths of 1.2 million people.
Surely it’s not just Blair. It’s a whole bunch of other folk who should be held accountable too. What did they do to the Germans after the war? They brought to court anybody they could find who had any kind of say with respect to the massacres at the holocaust. Is the Iraq war any different? And what on earth is everybody doing in Afghanistan?
Maybe it’s about Oil in Iraq and Opium in Afghanistan? The BIG money spinners… So then who was pulling the strings one wonders.
3 Comments
July 27th, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Brilliant blather! A + B = Whatever. Doesn’t matter that the CIA, MI5, and even the UN believed that Saddam was hiding WMD’s. And let’s just ignore all of the evidence of tyranny and terror under Saddam’s regime, see here-> http://www.usaid.gov/iraq/pdf/iraq_mass_graves.pdf
August 23rd, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Saddam was in the process of investing his oil funds from the American dollar into the Euro. This is as early as 2000. That doesn’t mean much on it’s own but it would lead into other countries doing the same thing by example. This would wreak havoc on the American economy more than the price of the war itself and any kind of Bailout could even touch because it would start to diminish our power as a country. As you know the dollar is king in international markets but the Euro is a close second if not more.
I believe the Uk is against the Euro… I’m not sure really. Ever since the end of WWII America and the UK along with Canada have created somewhat of a “depend on each other” democracy. I don’t know a better way of putting that but here’s an example. Take 2 cards and lean them against each other. They should form the peak of a triangle but if you remove one of the cards the other can’t support itself and falls. It’s not that fragile of a situation but the just of it is there if you catch my drift.
If you guys get into a situation we are here to support you. Maybe not through man power(until the last second “WWII”) but through aid and Military supplies. It’s vise versa with you guys too.
August 26th, 2010 at 2:50 am
@Matt
Thanks for your comment. Blair wanting to be big buddies with Bush? Friends for life and that kind of thinking? Anti Europe stance? I would definitely think that had something to do with it.
Whether that’s an excuse to kill off a bunch of people is another question.