Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
Dwight D. Eisenhower - April 16, 1953
It made me feel quite ill watching Tony Blair grinning like a Cheshire cat yesterday as he basked in the glory of the historic step towards peace in Ulster. He has been desperately flailing around looking for a legacy and this seemed like a God sent opportunity to bask in some glory before he departs from office.
Blair’s true legacy will be and deserves to be the Iraq war. The cost of the Iraq war is now nudging $400 billion. Oh what could have been achieved with that money? We could have ensured that the entire population of the Third World had clean drinking water, access to education, a chance to turn their fortunes around. What did we get? A totally fucked up Iraq which is orders of magnitude worse that it ever was under the Saddam Hussein regime. Currently 1000 Iraqis a week are being killed and the Allies are desperately seeking a way of pulling their troops out and leaving “security issues” to the Iraqi government.
Iraq is your legacy Mr Blair not Northern Ireland.
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