Get out now

in times gone past there was a Greek poet who went by the name of Horace. After Greece was conquered by Rome he came up with a most appropriate quotation Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit which I think you will find translates nicely into 'so captive Greece took captive her fierce conqueror'. May I say that this is true today of the desperate situation now developing in Iraq. Bush and Blair will never be able to extricate themselves because they are not only too proud they are also so very stupid.When they went to war with Iraq, defeated her and now continue to occupy the country they not only went on the wrong pretense of weapons of mass destruction they also went to war out of passion and not principle. If America was going to retaliate for 9/11 then it must not only have been Afghanistan they attacked but also Saudi Arabia and they were too scared to do that. The people who flew the planes into the World Trade Centre were Saudi, not Iraqi.We have given the guns to madmen and now they must be disarmed. The only solution is not only to talk with Syria and Iran but there must be a European and United nations dimension to solve the problems, not only of Iraq but also Israel and Palestine. There never can be peace in the middle east until the Golan heights are returned to Syria, that Iran stops developing nuclear weapons and that borders are drawn and agreed which guarantee the States of Palestine and Israel.When America adopted the Monroe Doctine in 1823 they expected there to be only two different political systems in the world, the American and the European and many Americans do not seem to be aware that times have changed. Blair must go now so that a peace conference can be held with people who are not tainted by the illegal war and occupation of Iraq. Time to go Blair.