That's right it's official our invasion of Iraq was illegal. Kofi Annan says any decision about what to do with Iraq after failure to comply with weapons inspections should have been made by the UN Security Council and not unilaterally. It's what we all knew but to have had it said by the head of UN must be fairly embarassing for Blair and Bush considering they tried to use the UN to give themselves legitimacy. So who are the international terrorists now?
So what happens now? Surely if the invasion was illegal like say the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait then the UN surely has to issue the ultimatum to get out of Iraq now and if we fail to comply raise a global coalition against us. Can't see that happening really but it's what we did to Iraq the first time around.
Blair should be forced to go though - he's taken this country into an illegal war and lied to the British people about Iraq's WMD capabilities. Tony won't resign as he is like the rest of New Labour and will stubbornly hang on to his position long after it is obvious he shouldn't. There is currently an attempt to impeach him but I can't see that getting him out of office. So it's either up to Labour MPs to deselect him as leader at the Labour Party conference or the British public to vote him out in the next General Election. If I was a Labour MP wanting to stay on the gravy train that is the elected government I'd be giving serious thought to the former course of action.
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I'm scared because I've always wondered how Hitler could get an entire country on board with genocide. Right now, if I try to have a civilized (civilised, for you "English-speakers" :P) conversation about current affairs, it is immediately crippled by an argument of generalized hatred which makes no sense: "Kill them all"
I say, who? They say, "All those raghead bastards."
I've even heard "all those Arabs" - which is ironic, because we ally with Saudi Arabia, and we don't force our "freedom" on them for "oppressing their people"... Or it's an Islam thing, which, if you check the stats on, er... we'd half to kill nearly half the population of the planet...
Aaaargh.
I also seem to remember learning that the UN was set up by the USA, and that we conveniently gave ourselves the power of ultimate veto.
So we ran the idea of war by the world, the world said no, but whatever, right?
I wonder what history our children will learn.
History is the story of the winner whoever that may be be.
Re the Hitler thing - the whole country went along with that maniac partially because Hitler and teh NAtional Socialists had managed to introduce almost full employment (mainly building armamaments and motorways to allow easy invasion of other countries) at a time when the rest of the world was in a very deep recession. Give people jobs and they'll vote for anything. Bush should try that one.
You can forget about rational arguments - that's harder because of the extremism on both sides which will only get worse as we get nearer the US election.
And don't worry about z/s - Merg doesn't and he's English! :)
And no that's not a signal to reinstate this - its a joke!
"History has a habit of rewriting itself"
...when it's lessons are not learned.
The Canadians and Mexicans had better start getting worried when Bush starts talking about lebe^H^H^H^Hliving room.
It's a prelude to the End of Days. Probably. Eek!
And of course questioning any part of the 'War on Terror' (even the illegal bits) effort makes you a traitor or enemy by default.
(hey could you delete my first dupe comment?) blogger fuxed me.
wow... Is this going to show up twice??'
blogger hates me.
The delete icons seem to have disappeared - I'll sort it when they come back.
Admins can delete comments and commenters can delete their own comments by clicking on the bin^H^H^Hgarbage can. When it's there.
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