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shamrock_uk · 03-09-2006, 03:29 PM

Funnily enough, John Simpson - the BBC World Affairs Correspondent - posted an unusually pessimistic column on Iraq a few days back so you're obviously not the only two thinking about this.

When the dust settles, I hope Blair & Bush lie awake at night thinking of the >100,000 people that have been killed as a direct result of their actions. Three years on and the capital still doesn't have the running water, petrol, electricity and security it had under Saddam. It's a joke.

But I think to leave now would be tragic and a horrible repetition of our complicity during the massacre of the Shia immediately following the first Gulf War.

They should have stayed and fixed Afghanistan, but they moved to Iraq. They should stay in Iraq, but already the tentacles are pointing to Iran.

I really hope things are being learnt here by certain foreign policy-makers, because their lessons are carrying a terrible price.

03-09-2006, 03:29 PM	#6
shamrock_uk Dracolich Join Date: January 24, 2004 Location: UK Age: 42 Posts: 3,092	Funnily enough, John Simpson - the BBC World Affairs Correspondent - posted an unusually pessimistic column on Iraq a few days back so you're obviously not the only two thinking about this. When the dust settles, I hope Blair & Bush lie awake at night thinking of the >100,000 people that have been killed as a direct result of their actions. Three years on and the capital still doesn't have the running water, petrol, electricity and security it had under Saddam. It's a joke. But I think to leave now would be tragic and a horrible repetition of our complicity during the massacre of the Shia immediately following the first Gulf War. They should have stayed and fixed Afghanistan, but they moved to Iraq. They should stay in Iraq, but already the tentacles are pointing to Iran. I really hope things are being learnt here by certain foreign policy-makers, because their lessons are carrying a terrible price.