Blair should have looked to the Iraq, where tens of thousands of civilians have been killed, to locate his philanthropy. One simple way of doing this would have been to donate towards hospital facilities in Fallujah, the epicentre of the Iraq war.
The city is enduring a legacy of soaring rates of cancer, which a report described as "similar to that in the Hiroshima survivors who were exposed to ionising radiation from the bomb and uranium in the fallout". 20,000 of Iraq's 34,000 registered physicians left the country following the invasion, fewer than 2,000 of them have returned since.
Iraqis are the ones suffering the most from Blair's decision making in the past and are in the most desperate need of international genorosity in the present.
Yes, JD. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in the pointless death of hundreds of British soldiers and hundreds and thousands of innocent civilians.No amount of money will wash their blood from his hands. The money will help a lot of the men and women who need it but I wonder why all of a sudden he wants to put this big donation out to help them. It shows a guilty conscience and he is worried about the adverse publicity he has had across the board. But no proportion of his massive and ill-gotten fortune can buy him innocence or forgiveness. At least one anti-war group is planning a protest at the official launch of Blair’s book in London next month and I intend to be there with them and make the best of a weekend there when the outrage subsides. The security will be massive, though. Rose Gentle, from my home town whose 19-year-old son Gordon died in a roadside bomb in Basra in 2004 has slammed Blair for his cynical ploy.
It would be nice if he gav some of his ill gotten gains to David Kelly's family or the families of dead Iraqis of whom there are a lot more than dead brits.
Blair should have looked to the Iraq, where tens of thousands of civilians have been killed, to locate his philanthropy. One simple way of doing this would have been to donate towards hospital facilities in Fallujah, the epicentre of the Iraq war.
ReplyDeleteThe city is enduring a legacy of soaring rates of cancer, which a report described as "similar to that in the Hiroshima survivors who were exposed to ionising radiation from the bomb and uranium in the fallout". 20,000 of Iraq's 34,000 registered physicians left the country following the invasion, fewer than 2,000 of them have returned since.
Iraqis are the ones suffering the most from Blair's decision making in the past and are in the most desperate need of international genorosity in the present.
Yes, JD. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in the pointless death of hundreds of British soldiers and hundreds and thousands of innocent civilians.No amount of money will wash their blood from his hands. The money will help a lot of the men and women who need it but I wonder why all of a sudden he wants to put this big donation out to help them.
ReplyDeleteIt shows a guilty conscience and he is worried about the adverse publicity he has had across the board. But no proportion of his massive and ill-gotten fortune can buy him innocence or forgiveness. At least one anti-war group is planning a protest at the official launch of Blair’s book in London next month and I intend to be there with them and make the best of a weekend there when the outrage subsides. The security will be massive, though. Rose Gentle, from my home town whose 19-year-old son Gordon died in a roadside bomb in Basra in 2004 has slammed Blair for his cynical ploy.
It would be nice if he gav some of his ill gotten gains to David Kelly's family or the families of dead Iraqis of whom there are a lot more than dead brits.
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