Thursday 18 December 2008

A General Election, Not an Iraq Enquiry

The humiliation in Iraq of New Labour's Leader continues today when he must come to our Parliament and explain himself and his regime's failures in foreign policy. Bolstered up by whatever means are used to enable him to face our own country's representatives' contempt for what he and New Labour have done, he will babble of tasks completed and courage displayed.

Courage even to death has been displayed. But not by him. He failed to oppose the illegal invasion, and he failed to provide resources and equipment for the soldiers he sent into battle. He fails today, as he has for years, to provide the long term expenditures that a standing army requires.

The lies and misrepresentations of what has happened and where responsibility lies will be reinforced by the diversion of attention to an Enquiry into the Iraq Invasion. Focussing on denying this Enquiry is to be substituted for the bitter condemnation of evey part of New Labour and its Leader in this evil use of power.

There is no need for an enquiry. What has happened is widely documented. And any enquiry conducted by a New Labour regime will be yet another narrative of lies.

What is needed is a general election, so that the people can pass judgment on New Labour's foreign policy just as much as on on its financial achievements.

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