Gabe,
Vis a vis the post below, I believe your attitude towards Blair's
unjustified attack on Iraq is entirely realistic and reflects the majority
position in the UK. It is definitely not defeatist. That the terrorist
attack on London, yesterday, was most likely was known to all. It merely
confirms that Blair has even more blood on his hands now than before. That
man has, virtually singlehandedly, put all of us, including visitors, at
risk in London. The backlash from the resilient people of London/UK against
Blair is inevitable and he should go now and even be treated as a war
criminal as a significant number believe. Put simply, Iraq did not threaten
the UK, the replacement of a leader of a nation was illegal as there was no
UN sanction for this or for a war. Consequently, there is likely to be,
unnecessarily, lasting resentment against Britain for a long time to come.
If anything, the war against Iraq is the reason for so much jihadist
insurgency and Blair had been warned about this. Instead, he believed that
he would be seen as a great liberator of Iraq and has sought all kinds of
bogus justifications for the war.
I am no pacificist and believe that some wars are justified e.g WW2 against
Hitler, the need to resolve the situation in Bosnia etc but not the last one
against Iraq. Sadam Hussein should have been finished off, justifiably, by
Bush senior in the Kuwait war. Further, the USA would have been justified
to attack Saudi Arabia, buddies or no buddies, because it was the Saudis who
were principally responsible for 9/11. I can also understand, to a limited
point, their attack against Afghanistan for not delivering Bin Laden, a
known criminal, for trial, but not their hypocracy at the point of attack on
Iraq and killing huge numbers of innocent people, notwithstanding that Sadam
Hussein was indeed a monster.
Cornel
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From: "Alfred de Tavares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 6:16 PM
Subject: RE: [Goanet]Al Qaeda in Europe.
>From: Gabe Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [Goanet]Al Qaeda in Europe.
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 13:20:47 +0100
Dow Jones Newswires reports, that an Arabic Website states, that this
was in retaliation for British involvement in Iraq.
Thank you, Tony Blair for this.
Gabe Menezes.
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Cheers,
Gabe Menezes.
London, England
Is'nt your attitude quite defeatist, Gabe.
Coming from an ex-service(?) man, it depresses.
Alfred de T.
