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20th March 2008

5 years, for what, exactly?

  • 20th Mar, 2008 at 12:05 AM
Politics
So, just getting in at the end, it's March 19th, 5 years since Iraq was invaded on a false pretext without any form of legal or even moral justification that held any water. As a fairly committed liberal internationalist who was in favour of the Yugoslav interventions and had argued for an Afghan intervention a long time before most had heard of the Taliban or Bin Laden, that we spent all our well earned capitolcapital on such a stupid, badly thought out endeavour still horrifies me. Worse, it makes necessary interventions in the future harder to justify to an incredibly sceptical public. But, y'know Jennie's said all these reasons already, and if you think it's hindsitesight talking, why not go look at Robin Cook's resignation speech courtesy of Larry? Meh. Enough talk. Over to Mitch...

Happy Birthday War by Mitch Benn

Says it all really.

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