War in Iraq

Please note that I do not hide from anybody or anything. I have my own family experience with a member of my family being given an honourable discharge from the army because of his beliefs, no court martial for him.

If a soldier is going to kill anybody because of orders from above then those orders must be, above else, honourable and based on an explicit trust. It is my belief that those orders were neither of the aforementioned.

Everybody has to understand that we have occupied a foreign country, Iraq, based on a premise which was not absolutely honest. I am of the firm belief that the sending of our soldiers to war should not have been sanctioned. Our soldiers signed up to protect their Queen and Country, not to kill innocent women and children, and possibly torture freedom fighters who are attempting to remove foreign invaders from their country.

People are right to criticise Tony Blair for what he has done, but there are many others who share his shame, they should not be allowed to escape. The main individual I now hold in complete contempt is Gordon Brown who paid for this war, and has done nothing since coming to power, except to authorise our ignominious retreat from Basra, and who now allows substantial sums of money to be given to our former enemies. Why have so many died, what has it achieved.