à ??Despite these compelling accounts of what happened, the truth is that we already know the main lessons of Iraq: Britain was taken unprepared into war on false grounds, and the inevitable result was the destruction of Iraq, enormous loss of life' [THE DEATH PRODUCT] à ??and continuing political turmoil in the Middle East. Worse, the Iraq War has radicalized Muslim opinion against the West throughout the world, even spawning terrorism on the streets of London', Sir Michael wrote.
The General elaborated that Britain has a tradition of holding its leaders to account when they lead the country into a disaster. He pointed out that when the British Army was defeated at Yorktown in 1781 at the end of the American War of Independence, the entire British Cabinet resigned. When Winston Churchill, who, as First Sea Lord, had been the main architect of the Empire's Gallipoli campaign against the Turks, saw the scale of the disaster that occurred in 1915, he immediately volunteered for the trenches in France where it is believed he hoped either to find death or to be able to redeem his honor.
[The Editor's father somehow survived the entire duration of the First World War in the trenches].
By contrast, General Sir Michael Rose added, Blair swans around the world today making millions from business contacts and lectures. And to make matters still worse, a large proportion of these earnings are only possible because of his US and Middle Western contacts arising out of his unconditional support for the Bush War and Death Machine. "
Link to this report:
http://www.worldreports.org/news/250_signs_of_an_end_game_showdown_with_washington
No doubt the revelations of the Chilcot Enquiry will lead to the prosecution of those implicated in these crimes against humanity that have not only persecuted the Iraqi population, but plundered and destroyed their country. No doubt there is a similar agenda in Afghanistan that has not been acknowledged by the official media too. We are beginning to see the truth emerge at last.
Noeline Clayfield
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