Justifying the War the in Iraq

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Justifying the War the in Iraq

Early last year, the latest Gulf War broke out, and, within weeks,

British and American leaders claimed that peace would prevail: that

the fighting had ended. More than six months after the 'end of the

war', soldiers, and Iraqis, are still dying. What went wrong? Was Bush

lying all along, or did he just make a mistake?

I think that the answer to this question is obvious: Bush and Blair,

or 'Bliar', as anti-war campaigners call him, have lying to us all

along. Before the war, the UN vetoed the war, until such time as there

was any proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

Bush and Blair, however, decided to ignore the clearly superior views

of others. They went straight ahead with the war, insisting that

action must be taken 'before it is too late'. However, by the end of

the war, no weapons of mass destruction had been found. In fact, on

the scale of weapons of mass destruction, America has enough power to

dominate the world!

Before the war broke out, the majority of British citizens were

against it. However, after the start of war, many changed their views,

not because they thought there should be a war, but because they

believed that it was their duty to support on English soldiers, who

believed what they were doing to be justified. However, as the war

went on, its popularity, not only in Britain, but also in America, was

rapidly decreasing.

This left Blair in a sticky condition! He had supported Bush in the

war, had failed to find any weapons of mass destruction, and now was

losing his popularity. At this point, he must have considered

renouncing anything to do with Bu...

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of the debate on Iraqin the parliament. In the South Korean capital,

Seoul, more than 2,000 people marched on the city centre to oppose the

sending of South Korean troops to Iraq. A quarter of a million people

took to the streets in the city of Sydney. One march, shortly before

the annual Labour Party conference, started in Hyde Park and was

followed by a rally in Trafalgar Square addressed by speakers

including Tony Benn, filmmaker Ken Loach and Labour MP George

Galloway. George Galloway said "Foreign occupiers are not the solution

to Iraq's problem, they are Iraq's problem."

These views are all summed up in the posters used in a Paris demo,

'NON A LA GUERRE! NO TO WAR!'

I think that, quite simply, Bush and Blair, the (B)liars, have got to

go. They deserve to be tried for war crimes, and to be convicted!

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