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There is a much rehearsed argument emanating from the mouths of the pro-war brigade and it runs something like this:
“Okay, we accept that you don’t like the war but unless you can solve the problem we’re now in then you must shut up and accept the way things are.”
It’s doubtful if such an argument deserves a response any more sophisticated than “bollocks!” but in the absence of any likelihood that such a simple response would suffice then try some or all of the following.
We warned it would be a disaster, you muppets. It’s hardly our fault if you refuse to listen.
We never believed your lies – because that’s what they were, LIES.
We never believed there were stockpiles of chemical weapons. Why not? Well, Mr Blair, Mr Bush, Mr Cheney etc, etc, etc, we listened to those who know about these things and we understood basic scientific principles about the deterioration that is a natural part of the process of chemical weapons. As, Scott Ritter (former US Marine and UN Weapons Inspector) explained. Anything they had in 1991 was “sludge” by now.
Inspections had worked and were still working. We didn’t all fall for those crappy old lies about inspectors being kicked out by Saddam a few years back. (The Inspectors were withdrawn by the UN due to the impossibility of guaranteeing the safety of personnel in light of a decision by the UK and US to resume bombing missions.)
We knew that sanctions (carried out with an evil intent more in keeping with Ming the Merciless than so called Western Democracies) had effectively reduced a proud nation to near stone-age capabilities.
We knew that the one thing we could guarantee was that we weren’t going to invade any country with chemical/biological or nuclear weapons. Why? Because that would be dangerous!!
We knew that they couldn’t have weapons because we hadn’t sold them any recently.
We could see the glint in Dick Cheney’s eye when he pored over those maps carving up the Iraqi oilfields a year before the war was ever mentioned.
We had kept our eyes open long enough to see the documents produced by the neo-cons over many years detailing an invasion of Iraq as part of long term policy.
We could see that Tony Blair was so far up the President’s rear end that he could almost touch the soles of Condi’s feet.
We marched in the millions and were proved absolutely right.
So, Mr Blair and all his mates can get stuffed. They have presided over what may be seen as the worst single foreign policy adventure ever concocted and, quite frankly, as Colin Powell said, ‘You break it, you own it.’ That’s you, Mr Blair, not us, the sensible and ignored majority. How dare you suggest that Iraq is in any way ‘our problem.’ You broke it, and although we will all have to live with the consequences of your stupidity, it really is your responsibility to sort it out. Maybe, just maybe if you go and things are subsequently done in a sensible fashion then your idiocy might yet be mitigated. But don’t, under any circumstances, blame the honest, decent anti-war majority for your folly.
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