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In less than two weeks, British troops will hand over Basra in Iraq to Iraqi troops – but there is little sense of victory or elation, as more than 173 British servicemen have been killed in action in the conflict – which was based on a disgraceful pack of lies manufactured by a clique within the establishment parties.
Nearly five years after then-Prime Minister Tony Blair sent 46,000 British troops to help the United States topple Saddam Hussein, justifying the war on the basis of a “dossier” which has now been proven to have been based on a pack of lies and distortions, Britain is keeping in place a force of just several thousand, confined to a single air base near Basra.
“The reason why security is so much better here, the reason why things have improved, is because of you, because of what you’ve achieved,” Brown told some of the remaining troops during a brief visit on Sunday evening to their last main base.
But in a sign of just how precarious Britain’s presence has become, journalists traveling with him were not even permitted to report the visit until he was safely out of the country.Basra is now a place where Shi’ite militiamen administer justice and spray paint walls with threats to kill women who go out without veils. Interpreters who worked for the British have been kidnapped, tortured and killed.
Most military experts have concluded Britain lost this war. “It is quite clear that the British have been defeated, that they are essentially marginalized in an enclave,” U.S. analyst Anthony Cordesman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies said in August.
“The Blair government built this up into a valiant effort that would change the Middle East and become a beacon for the region, but that was never really an attainable objective given the resources they applied to it,” Tim Ripley, who writes for Janes defense publications, told Reuters over the weekend.
“They were playing for a draw. That’s a more realistic assessment I’d say. Nil-nil. In extra time. Not pretty.”
After World War II, the leaders of Germany were put on trial for the crime of “waging aggressive war” against Poland in 1939 – attacking a country which posed no direct military or other threat to Germany. The German political leadership and military commanders were all put on trial, setting the precedent which must now be applied to the Blair-Brown Labour regime as well.
The time has come for the criminals who brought our country to war against Iraq, after having forged the ‘evidence’, to be put on trial for the crime of “waging aggressive war.”
Included in the criminals responsible for this moral travesty, are the Tory Party leadership who also voted in favour of sending our troops to this conflict.
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