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Originally Posted by Ramrod
But those deaths have nothng to do with a 30 sec clip  |
I'm speaking from a personal perspective which I know I am not alone in holding.
Here is a quote from Tony Blair's address to the UK population on Thursday March 20th 2003.
"On Tuesday night I gave the order for British forces to take part in military action in Iraq. Tonight British servicemen and women are engaged from air, land and sea.
Their mission: to remove Saddam Hussein from power,
and disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction."
Notwithstanding the total lack of WMDs being discovered Hussein was effectively removed from power on April 10th 2003. He was then captured on December 13th 2003.
Servicemen and women who have died post December 13th, when Hussein was remanded into American custody, have died in circumstances entirely beyond the remit of the stated objective with which they were charged.
The execution of Hussein was the final chapter in his total removal from power and elimination as a threat to anyone. The broadcast of his execution is "job done" as far as his adversaries are concerned.
Anyone who has lost colleagues and friends in this conflict will tell you that they'd much rather have them back than sit and watch constant Sky News re-runs of some despot dictator dangling off the end of a rope no matter how much that might ease the consciences of those who advocated what has become the most farcical, expensive (in human and fiscal terms) and ill prosecuted regime change exercise in modern history .
Gavin is entirely right - Iraq, in it's current state, cannot be helped.