Britons remember their dead from the Iraq war

[MaineDem]

LONDON, Oct. 10 — Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has been widely criticized at home for taking Britain to war in Iraq, joined Queen Elizabeth II, religious leaders and others Friday in solemn remembrance of the dead at St. Paul's Cathedral.

The service was for the 50 British service personnel and one British civilian killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led coalition invaded to depose Saddam Hussein.

The service included two religious leaders — Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Roman Catholic Archbishop Cormac Murphy O'Connor — who jointly questioned the moral legitimacy of the war.

Before the invasion, the spiritual leader of the Church of England pointedly asked ''whether certain kinds of intervention would actually make worse the situation not only in Iraq but in the region.''


http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusintl/ap10-10-055540.asp?reg=europe&vts=101020030630

[phillybri]

1. On this side of the pond, our soldiers barely warrant a mention...

How horrible is that???

:grr:

[IndianaGreen]

2. Tony Blair alone bears responsibility for those soldiers' deaths

Those soldiers, and the one civilian, would be alive today with their loved ones had it not been for the poodle licking Bush's balls.

The audacity of this man to show up at a ceremony commemorating the very people he had killed!

[montanacowboy]

4. The Criminal

always returns to the scene of the crime - just like an arsonist watching the fire he created.

[Nihil]

5. There's a first time for everything

Let's face it, neither the bastard nor his bint had turned up to any
of the other coffin parties to express their grief and sympathy ...
they had much more important things to do, parties to attend, hands
to shake and arses to lick.

Nihil

[havocmom]

3. And in the US, the puppet in the people's house tells us to cheer up

'Don't worry, be happy' is not a fitting memorial for our fallen troops.