Posted on 03/26/2008 11:10:35 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Gordon Brown, uncontested as Labour leader, was supposed to bring calm, restore stability and optimism, and unite his party and the country. Instead this week we've have stormy weather over post offices, embryology and Iraq.
It's disappointing but not surprising that a Tory attempt to force the government to hold an Iraq inquiry sooner rather than later was voted down in the Commons last night. Backbench Labour MPs may talk up their regrets about the war, but they show the same misguided loyalty to the government that led us into the war in the first place.
Five years ago I was one of the millions who marched against the Iraq war. More than four years ago Lib Dems launched the call for an inquiry. We're still waiting.
The cost of the war continues to grow: thousands of lives and some £6.5bn of expenditure, which could have been spent not only on better conditions for the forces, but on hospitals, homes and schools, as I and young people from Islington demonstrate in this picture.
The political cost of the war is still being counted. Labour hoped that, after Tony Blair, Iraq would fade from the voters' minds, and the electorate would forgive and forget. But from the response on Islington's doorsteps, five years on, people are still angry.
Meanwhile the NUT has voted to exclude the army from coming to speak in schools. I have mixed feelings on this.
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I choose freedom.
Remember they are statists.
I choose riots, car burnings, railway bombs, anthrax attacks, shoulder-fired missiles, and skyscraper collapses.
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