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To: sea_urchin who wrote (24060)	1/8/2006 6:42:20 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81048

Something one will not be reading in the MSM. islam-online.net >>British Prime Minister Tony Blair should be impeached for his role in the Iraq war, a leading British Army officer was quoted as saying by Britain's the Mail on Sunday. "I think the politicians should be held to account ... my view is that Blair should be impeached," General Sir Michael Rose, a former UN commander in Bosnia, said in a television documentary to be aired on Channel Four television on Friday, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP). "That would prevent the politicians treating quite so carelessly the subject of taking a country into war." US President George Bush and his war ally Blair invaded Iraq in March 2003 without a mandate from the UN Security Council on claims of possessing weapons of mass destruction, none of them had ever been found. "I would not have gone to war on such flimsy grounds," Rose said. Clare Short, a former minister who quit Blair's government over the Iraq invasion, has said the government never held an honest debate concerning Iraq's WMDs and most ministers saw little intelligence and knew only what they read in the press. In 2004, an official inquiry blasted the British pre-war intelligence as unreliable and seriously flawed. Negligence Martin Bell, BBC television's former war correspondent who made the documentary – "Iraq: The Failure of War" – backed impeaching Blair. "Ordering the armed forces to war is the most serious decision any government takes. On Iraq it was taken with a degree of nonchalance bordering on negligence," said the former independent member of parliament. In his film, Bell argue the case that war is an increasingly unreliable and unjustifiable means of solving conflicts in the 21st century. Twenty-three British lawmakers attempted in November 2004 to file a motion to impeach Blair on charges of "gross misconduct" over the US-led invasion. Although it fell by the wayside despite attempts to revive it during the general election last May, it was the first such bid to impeach a British prime minister in 198 years. A recently-leaked government memo revealed that Blair had already committed himself to a regime change in Iraq by force eight months before the invasion of the oil-rich Arab country. In a 13-page legal advice to Blair on March 7, 2003, British Attorney General Lord Goldsmith raised doubts over the legality of the Iraq war. <<

To: sea_urchin who wrote (24060)	1/8/2006 7:13:36 PM
From: philv	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81048

When there is a lack of good will and trust, when there is an abundance of hatred and suspicion and a long history of conflict, nations revert to arms and warfare. In the Middle East this is further complicated by religion and the ownership question of a tiny plot of land they both consider holy in the divided city of Jerusalem. There are many aspects to this problem which seem to be unsolvable, given the intransigence and irreconcilable differences of both the Jews and the Moslems. Unlike you, I have not formed an opinion of unreserved support for either side. I can see merit on one side, and injustice on the other. That is why for me, this problem seems unsolvable. War has in the past settled matters, and sometimes settled matters for all times. Not that I advocate war, but I can see the temptation for either side to settle the matter, once for all time, fairness not withstanding. I am anti war, but also a realist (in my mind), and accept what history has taught about human nature. That makes me quite pessimistic actually. Maybe the answer is for the Jews to move to Alaska or Canada, as suggested by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. That would certainly solve the 2000 year old problem. But somehow, I don't think that will happen. Maybe the Jews should lay down their arms and hope for the good will and mercy of their Moslem brothers. That too won't happen. So what possibly can stop this madness? What can stop Iran from pursuing what it sees her national right to arm herself, as Israel has done? There is a new factor in the equation now, and that is the matter of nuclear weapons and long range missiles. And I'm afraid we are on a collision course.