| "One Quarter of British People Are Mad!" |
Posted on 17th January 2010 @ 20:37:32 |
George Ashcroft
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I remain glad that Saddam Hussein is no more. Everyone knows that the coalition should have ousted Hussein following Desert Storm in 1991. There was no doubt that Hussein possessed biological and chemical agents: America sold them to him. There is also little doubt that he was prepared to use them: witness his gassing of the Kurds or the firing of Scud Missiles at Tel-Aviv.
I have no doubt that Blair believed that Saddam Hussein posed a serious threat to regional stabilty in the Middle East. I believe it to have been so and for that reason alone I will not join the chorus against Tony Blair. The war criminal was Saddam Hussein, not George Bush and certainly not Tony Blair. And if the quarter of those who would see Blair on trial I say this: TOUGH LUCK!
These are people who actually symapthise with the likes of Saddam Hussein and who cannot discern right from wrong in our world. Today they are a quarter of Britons. God help our civilisation should they ever become a majority.
"Almost one in four Britons back Blair war crimes trial: poll
A YouGov poll for The Sunday Times newspaper found that 23 percent of those surveyed think that Blair should face war crimes charges.
The weekly newspaper added that 52 percent believe that Blair deliberately misled the country in the run-up to the 2003 war.
Blair, who led the nation into the controversial conflict, will meanwhile give evidence to a public inquiry into the Iraq war at some point in the two-week period from January 25.
The survey suggested that most people think the former premier knew that Saddam Hussein possessed no weapons of mass destruction.
Yougov found that only 32 percent of those polled accepted that Blair "genuinely believed" in the threat that he used to help make the case for the Iraq war.
YouGov interviewed 2,033 voters in an online poll that was conducted on Thursday and Friday"
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| Posted on 8th March 2010 @ 05:25:23 |
| John Franklyn |
I served in 91 with a number of my friends, next time we meet for a pint George, remind me to tell you what happened shortly after we returned, i'll tell you about two lads inparticular. |
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