Tutu: Bush, Blair Should Apologize for 'Immoral' War
Mon Feb 16, 9:41 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu will challenge British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) and President Bush (news - web sites) to apologize for pursuing a counterproductive and "immoral" war in Iraq (news - web sites), a British newspaper reported Monday.
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In a speech he is due to give in London Monday Tutu will say the turmoil after the war proved it is an illusion to believe that "force and brutality" leads to greater security, the Independent reported. It said Tutu would ridicule the "dangerously flawed" intelligence Britain and the United States used to justify military action in Iraq. "An immoral war was thus waged and the world is a great deal less safe place than before," the paper quoted him as saying. "It is large-hearted and courageous people who are not diminished by saying 'I made a mistake'. President Bush and Prime Minister Blair would recover considerable credibility and respect if the were able to say, 'Yes we made a mistake,"' said the Nobel prize winner.
"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state."
- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
