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Falluja outrage
29/11/2004
The tragic loss of three members of the Black Watch batallion
sent north in Iraq to support the US assault on Fallujah was the
inevitable
consequence of Tony Blair's decision to tie Britain ever closer to
George Bush's Coat tails.
Tony Blair has referred to this previously as the 'blood price'.
Sending 600 British troops into the US sector of Iraq, where there
were 130,000 serving American soldiers already, made a pimple of a
difference militarily and was designed purely to tie us in to the
US military machine in the world's eyes.
It is awful to see your worst predictions come true, but my
statement last week that we would become targets for
suicide-bombers and increased
terrorist targeting at home and abroad has already been proved
correct.
It is vital that peacekeeping in Iraq is brought under United
Nations responsibility. And we should also turn our attention to
places like Darfur, where an avoidable human tragedy an a massive
scale is unfolding.
Tony Dawson, Lib Dem parliamentary campaigner Oldham East & Saddleworth
God Bless America - God help the rest of the World for the next
four years. The world will be a less safer place for all of us to
live in.
Is there any good news? Well of course there is.
Good news for the arms/defence industries to produce more weapons
that will kill
Good news for the neo-con evangelical zealots who will now carry on
with their crusade
Good news for Sharon who will continue with his terrorising of the
Palestinian people
Good news for the politicians who will carry on with their politics
of fear and fantasy
Bad news for next nation to be invaded and be bombed to smithereens
by the USA
Bad news for the "phantom" Al-Qaeda
Amen
Mr I Kala, Bolton
WE write to condemn unreservedly, the barbaric onslaught
launched by the US forces against the city of Falluja and its
residents.
While this attack may have theatrically been formatted to appear as
though it was the Iraqi Interim Government and its Prime Minister
that have ordered the attack, no one is foolish enough to believe
that this was done with anything but the full will and command of
the American occupation forces. The Interim Government's lack of
credibility and legitimacy amongst the Iraqi people, makes this
scenario all the more absurd.
Already dozens of citizens have been killed as a result of the
fierce US bombardment of the city which is home to more than
350,000 people. Hundreds if not thousands more are likely to be
killed particularly after Prime Minister Iyad Allawi declared a
state of emergency throughout most of the country in preparation of
the attack on Falluja.
This travesty is another smack in the face of all claims that Iraq
has been liberated or that its people are enjoying the fruits of
democracy and freedom brought to them by virtue of a war that has
long been proven illegal and immoral.
We demand the immediate cessation of all military attacks against
Falluja and the full and immediate withdrawal of occupying troops
from a country that is clearly in turmoil as a result of their very
presence.
Anas Altikriti and Ihtisham Hibatullah, The Muslim Association of Britain
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