Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis would perhaps have taken issue with Doug Maughan’s defence of Tony Blair, but they can’t because they are dead, killed in Mr Blair’s illegal war.
The children they left behind, all those whose homes were bombed to rubble, the soldiers who were sent to war on a lie, some returning mentally and physically scarred, and the many who came home in coffins, may also have disagreed with Mr Maughan.
The weapons of mass destruction, the excuse used by Mr Blair to justify his side-stepping of the United Nations, and leading the UK into a totally unnecessary war, did not turn up in Iraq, but anyone wishing to find any need go no further than the Clyde.Mr Maughan, on no evidence that I can see, trots out the latest excuse used by Mr Blair and his supporters that Saddam would have developed them anyway.
Seven years on, death and destruction continue to haunt Iraq, and nowhere more so than in the city of Fallujah, where babies continue to be born with serious heart problems, horrific physical deformities, and with mental abnormalities.For the mothers of Fallujah who have given birth to babies with two heads, or with no heads at all, it is impossible to imagine that they will ever recover from the horrors of Mr Blair’s unjustifiable war.
Ruth Marr
The children they left behind, all those whose homes were bombed to rubble, the soldiers who were sent to war on a lie, some returning mentally and physically scarred, and the many who came home in coffins, may also have disagreed with Mr Maughan.
The weapons of mass destruction, the excuse used by Mr Blair to justify his side-stepping of the United Nations, and leading the UK into a totally unnecessary war, did not turn up in Iraq, but anyone wishing to find any need go no further than the Clyde.Mr Maughan, on no evidence that I can see, trots out the latest excuse used by Mr Blair and his supporters that Saddam would have developed them anyway.
Seven years on, death and destruction continue to haunt Iraq, and nowhere more so than in the city of Fallujah, where babies continue to be born with serious heart problems, horrific physical deformities, and with mental abnormalities.For the mothers of Fallujah who have given birth to babies with two heads, or with no heads at all, it is impossible to imagine that they will ever recover from the horrors of Mr Blair’s unjustifiable war.
Ruth Marr
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