The score
650,000.And Blair's advisers have to advise him not to keep lying about it. The study is sound. Not that that stopped them. Triesman lied again about it days after they were advised to stop rubbishing the study. The government is reduced to saying that although the study is sound, its figures are so much higher than "other sources" (the Iraqi government, in other words, which has a clear reason for lying and has not done anything like as rigorous a study). So here we are. We are saying that the Lancet study is wrong because others have lied through their teeth and the Lancet didn't. Erm.
We had no right to attack Iraq. It was a disgusting war crime. I deplore the men involved. In a just world, they would be in prison, begging their God for forgiveness. They did not have my support and they do not now. I want our troops out. Now. I want us to stop adding to the enormous death toll that is our responsibility. It makes you feel sick to the stomach to see it. 650,000 lives. One in 40. Add that to the half a million we killed with sanctions and it is clear that we cannot have left a single family in Iraq without a loss.
Those who supported it, this is what you supported. When you mocked those of us who said it would be a disaster, this is what you mocked. If you have a God, you should be asking forgiveness too. You allowed this. You asked for it. 650,000 lives are on your conscience too.
posted by Dr Zen @ 11:13 am
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