Don't wait for God. We will judge you

[Briar]

Don't wait for God. We will judge you

Near civil meltdown in Iraq greets the third anniversary of Shock and Awe. To families who mourn it seems the world has forgotten

Mary Riddell


God will judge Tony Blair on the Iraq war. Or so the Prime Minister told Michael Parkinson. Think back to another television appearance, this time last year. On that occasion, Mr Blair faced a studio of women and a different ombudsman. History would deliver its verdict on him, he said. His audience denounced his war, but he was certain that no tribunal, divine or temporal, would ever find his judgment wanting.

This time, as the third anniversary of the start of war approaches, Mr Blair sounded less sure. Wishful thinking, maybe, but he looked to me like a man haunted, at last, by what he had unleashed. If Mr Blair is finally realising his catastrophic error, that shift is partly down to the mothers, wives and partners who have never stopped pointing out the folly of this conflict.

Wednesday is International Women's Day. It will be marked by thousands of petitions for peace, to be handed in at US embassies across the world. Such pleas have rarely looked more hopeless. Hundreds lie dead after the bombing of the golden mosque at Samarra. The old conflict, a daily toll of death and suffering, may soon be swept away by new variant civil meltdown. From Burnley to Baghdad, women warned of this. Obviously, millions of men did so, too, but female opponents outnumbered male ones in Britain, and their Iraqi counterparts faced the hideous fate always meted out to the women and children of war.

It was not that they had prospered under Saddam Hussein and UN sanctions. In Basra, in 2002, 25 out of the 26 obstetrics and gynaecology students were women. Yet their patients were weak and sick, and one in eight of the babies they delivered would not see their fifth birthday.

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1723829,00.html

[xchrom]

1. bushco has been like a juggernaut.

the funny thing is -- just a few people here in the right places could have stopped this thing.

they had it in their hands -- held it -- loked at it -- and went with the juggernaut.

[Skeptor]

3. You have to wonder whether it would have happened at all, if

Bush had stayed away from the jug as a youngster and remained an oilonaut.

[xchrom]

4. lol -- in that case he'd be livin off

daddy's money!

[tecelote]

2. Bush and Blair think God approves?

Hey guys, that voice in your head is not God.

Now, think about who would tell you to go to war and to sell your country out from under it's citizens?