Firestarter, Twisted Firestarter By-Election (Part 3)
The most compelling reason to kick Labour out of Cathcart and Livingston is that they are collectively responsible for Iraq. The Labour Party is culpable for Blair. They are complicit by holding him in office because they perceived him as an electoral asset. They can't complain about the war in Iraq when it was in their power to kick him out. The British Labour Party and their supine MPS could have called Blair to account, but instead have insisted on moaning from the sidelines.
Iraq is indeed a Moral Chernobyl for which the Labour govt is wholly responsible and the more we hear it descending into chaos the more reason there is to ditch Labour.
In America according to a new Human Rights Watch abuse of Iraqi prisoners 'was sport'. Soldiers in the US Army's elite 82nd Airborne Division vented their frustration by systematically torturing Iraqi detainees from 2003 into 2004, hitting them with baseball bats and dousing them with chemicals, a U.S. rights group alleges in a new report.
The Human Rights Watch report, issued last week, was compiled from interviews with a captain and two sergeants who served in a battalion of the 82nd Airborne that was stationed at a military base called Mercury near Fallujah, the insurgent stronghold retaken by U.S. forces last year.
One of the sergeants allegedly told the group that military intelligence personnel, eager for information, often instructed soldiers to "smoke" detainees -- called Persons Under Control -- during questioning, the report said. "Smoking" prisoners meant physically abusing them until they lost consciousness.
But the motive was not always to gain intelligence, one sergeant was quoted as saying.
"Everyone in camp knew if you wanted to work out your frustration, you show up at the PUC tent. In a way it was sport," he reportedly said.
"One day [another sergeant] shows up and tells a PUC to grab a pole. He told him to bend over and broke the guy's leg with a mini-Louisville Slugger, a metal bat."
Full story here...
Remember the mysterious story about the two undercover British soldiers that blew the idea of Iraqi sovereignty? Judge Mudhafar says he is not convinced the two men are British - possibly because one of them was said to have been carrying a Canadian-made weapon - and they may not be entitled to immunity. Read the full account at the Independent here. And follow the ‘evolution’ of state disinformation about this story here...
Don’t you just love the Labour Party’s bare-faced cheek in now heralding Robin Cook as the party’s conscience? This is a guy sidelined, demoted and ridiculed, who’s now in death lauded as their heart and soul.
Kick Labour out not because of the disgrace of Mike Watson but the disgrace of Blair’s War in Iraq.
