Lets move on, Neil? Move on from 1.5M people (low estimate) displaced? Move on from 300,000 men, women and children(very low estimate) dead? Move on from white phosphorous and depleted uranium-induced deformities in babies in Fallujah? Move on from Abu Ghraib, torture and rendition? Move on from the billions wasted in creating chaos and a Shiite theocracy in Iraq? Yes I bet you and your New Labour friends would like to move on. On the bright side, most of your candidates will be moving on to a career outside politics after the election on 6th May and it will be largely as a result of the Iraq bloodbath and the other betrayals of everything that the Labour movement ever stood for. Why did they wheel you out to utter this crass, cynical garbage? Because Brown and Milliband and Mandelson don’t want their names in the same sentence as the word Iraq. You on the other hand are expendable to New Labour (and everyone else now). Roll on May 7th. Clegg for PM.
David Miliband says he’s been going around telling voters, ‘Look, you’ve punished us enough about Iraq, all right?‘ Rarely have a mere nine words carried such meaning and implication. Where to start to unpick it? we could be here all day.When did this punishment take place, for example? I must have missed it. Who’s been punished? Two years after the war in Iraq, New Labour were returned to power with a respectable majority. Was that the punishment? When you look at what’s happened since 2005, I’d argue it’s the UK that’s been punished. Has David had a miserable time of it being one of the most powerful men in the country. Is that it? Tony Blair is prancing around the planet stuff his pockets with cash while unironically being hailed as a peacemaker and a religious leader. Is that a punishment? Who lost their job over Iraq? Who went to prison? Who was sent to their room without any supper? Are any of them nursing babies with birth defects? Are they being attacked in the streets for wearing the wrong clothes? Just what does Miliband mean by ‘punished’? Not only that, but is it for Miliband and his mates to say when the punishment’s finished? Who knew these things have a shelf-life, a statute of limitations. It’s all so 2005, daaaahling. Is he admitting some degree of guilt here? I rather think he is. I’m not a criminal lawyer but I’m pretty sure that people who are sent to prison don’t get to decide when their punishment is done. We’ll be the judge, thank you very much David.Thanks anyway, Kinnock too.
ReplyDeleteAll war criminals want to move on, turn the page, sweep it under the rug, look forward, or some other cowardly cliche.
ReplyDeleteThis will not do. People have to be held accountable. We must learn from history, or we are doomed.