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“You’ve got blood on your hands,” screamed a delegate during the British Labour Party Conference, which convened this week in Brighton amid war-protesters. And I can accredit this heart-felt accusation onto President Bush, Premier Berlusconi and all those who contributed in the massacre of Iraq. And I ask, what divine right had they to be the judge and jury to pronounce sentence and carry it to the bitter end, when the UN did not even sanction the war? This atrocity was condemned worldwide, with the “late” declaration of the Secretary General of the UN himself when he publicly declared that the war was “illegal.”
The war did nothing but devastate a nation, bringing havoc everywhere, and instead of eliminating the target – terrorism – it did nothing but added fuel to the fire. Tension, instead of being appeased was further refuelled, and more American and allied soldiers were killed after the war than during the savage attacks on the Iraqis. More innocent civilians were taken hostages, brutally beheaded, not to mention the cruelty inflicted on the prisoners of war by both rivals. And all this was done in defence of democracy, despite heavily protested the world over to stop the war. And shouldn’t the American et. al. describes their atrocities in Iraq as outright terrorism? Aren’t they guilty as well as Saddam and Bin Laden are?
Two wrongs will never make one right. The Pope himself condemned the war and advised that differences should be settled rationally around the table and not irrationally on the bloody battlegrounds. But Bush was determined to continue were his father had left off more than eight year before him. Being warmongers, the Bushes know no boundaries when the oil business is their aim.
Those who saw the film ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ will definitely come to some conclusion on this senseless war. How and why did they come to the conclusive excuse of the hidden biological and chemical weapons, which were never identified? If Saddam had them they were, after all, supplied by the Westerners and the American’s themselves, to help them fight their war against Iran. The same can be said of Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan. Then, the ‘allies’ turned to be their enemies after they ‘made use of them.’
Blair made a partial apology “for the information that turned out to be wrong.” He never hesitated to avoid the fatal rushed decision. He was aware that the war had divided not only the Labour Party, but also the British people. It was a belated apology, which made many suffer the consequences of his wrong decision. Though he never showed compunction or apologized to the relatives of Dr. David Kelly who committed suicide after divulging what his conscience was telling him to do about the report handed to Blair by the secret service. And what right had he to “bring down” Saddam?
Where was Blair et.al. when war broke war broke out and divided Yugoslavia and the Balkans? Where is he now to stop the massacre of many innocent women and children that is occurring everyday in Israel and the Palestinian territory?
Where is he now to stop the dictators in various African countries forcing many refugees to flee their respective country on a dangerous journey across the Mediterranean for better pastures? These are the same rich countries, which were colonized by civilized Europe, and deserted after they had been drained of their natural (wealth) resources? Your prayers, Mr Blair, are not enough! The scars ‘you’ inflicted on them will never heal!
Where are you now Messrs Blair, Bush, Berlusconi et.al to end these atrocities. Where is the United Nations, which was set up precisely to see that no powerful nation/s would take advantage of their size to invade a weaker one?
Louis Fenech
Iklin
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