The West was warned. Now it is paying the price of the 'war on terror'

[Manix]

The Independent
by Robert Fisk


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I don't believe this is the Third World War. Nor is it a "war on
terror". Nor is it a "war of civilisations". But our own leaders are
wilfully leading us into a period of appalling suffering because they
will not address the causes of injustice in the Islamic world.
Repeatedly, our leaders were told of the consequences of participation
in America's Iraqi folly. They lied to us. They told us about weapons of
mass destruction that didn't exist, about links between Iraq and 11
September 2001 that didn't exist. Now, trapped in Iraq, we are desperate
to scuttle away, leaving behind us a half-trained force of collaboration
police who will - supposedly - shed their blood for ours.

No, the murderers are the men who plant the bombs. The killers are those
who kill - and that includes our pilots as well as their bombers. We
don't want to kill civilians. But we know that our wars will do that,
and death does not come more pleasantly, less painfully, because the
victims are killed by the supposedly benevolent West rather than the
supposedly cruel East. Now we are beginning to pay the price.

Did it really begin on 11 September 2001? No, it began long before. And
no amount of weasel words, no amount of church warden sincerity can mask
the degree to which we have been taken by our leaders into this insane
conflict.



http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5852.htm

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. Its being blown out of proportion....

Because we have a Christian fundamentalist wacko in the White House.

[Paradise]

2. just fyi, your link doesn't seem to be working.

[Manix]

4. ....updated now

[Paradise]

6. thanks. n/t

[WoodrowFan]

3. Fisk, feh.

Fisk is a moral idiot.

[Capt_Nemo]

5. No, he is a knowlegeable wise man

Just looks like a moral idiot to the gullible and the brainwashed.

[bemildred]

7. What would you know of Fisk's morals? nt