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by timpickstone on 26 March, 2008
Its five years since the start of our involvment with the war in Iraq.
Nick Harvey MP – the Liberal Democrat Shadow Defence Minister marks the occasion with this video.
Britain only invaded Iraq because MPs voted for it. Asked on 18th March 2003 to support Tony Blair’s motion for military action against Iraq, Labour and Conservative MPs lined up to vote “ayeâ€.
Both the Conservative and Labour frontbenches in the House of Commons supported the war. The Conservatives even argued that the Government wasn’t being tough enough.
Five years on, over 170 British servicemen and women have been killed in Iraq, along with hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians. British taxpayers have poured £6.5 billion into the conflict, and the Conservatives are trying to rewrite history by now calling for an inquiry.
Why not visit the special website - it’s time to hold the politicians who took us to war to account!
1 Comment
Sorry, I can’t hold myself to account as I didn’t stand again at the last election. In any case the Lib-Dems were plonkers (with the possible exception of Bob Russsell). They would have supported the war if there had been a second UN resolution. But I was one of those lefties who would have correctly opposed an invasion come hell or high water. Nick Harvey is just being sanctimonious. He shows no appreciation of the fact that the situation on the rights and wrongs of subsequent actions became highly complex once the (avoidable) invasion had taken place. Some of us in “Labour Friends of Iraq” have attempted a tackle aspects of this.