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"If Saddam Hussein deserves to be humiliated and have his fillings counted and his hair checked for lice on primetime TV, then so does George Bush," Roy told about 100 people at a leftist convention on the sidelines of the World Social Forum. "Saddam Hussein surely ought to be tried for crimes against humanity. But so should all his accomplices in the US and Europe," she said. "To applaud the US army's capture of Saddam Hussein and therefore justify its invasion and occupation of Iraq is like deifying Jack the Ripper for disembowelling the Boston Strangler," Roy said. - SOURCE

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‘‘We may not have stopped the war in Iraq,’’ says Jeremy Corbyn, British member of parliament and anti-war thorn in Tony Blair’s side. ‘‘But maybe we’ve stopped the next one. We’ve made it much harder for them to pull off another war against the ‘Axis of Evil’.’’

For Corbyn, the war was about democracy, but not Iraq’s: ‘‘Bush thought he needed a war to win votes. But it’s also about the US achieving global security after 9/11 and oil supplies.’’

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‘‘Iraq is a very special country,’’ says a grim-faced Amir Al-Rekaby, the leader of the Iraqi National Democratic Opposition. Al-Rekaby is an Iraqi, and it sounds as if he is about to eulogise the beauty of his motherland. But his next sentence is heavy with cynicism: ‘‘It’s position is very strategic and it has oil.’’

His explanation of why the war took place is equally stark: ‘‘The US invaded Iraq because it wants hegemony over the world,’’ he says. ‘‘We progressives can fight them, but we need to give ourselves the tools to do it.’’ Corbyn and he are hoping the WSF is the place those tools can be forged. - SOURCE