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--- two years on!!!
Two years on since the illegal invasion of Iraq and the smug, arrogant, self righteous Senator for the UK, the Right Honourable Tony Blurb still spouts, “It was the right decision.” Has he looked at the facts? 100,000 Iraqi civilians dead, half of them women and children. Almost 2,000 coalition forces dead and approaching 12,000 coalition forces injured. A health service and education system that was the envy of the region, totally destroyed. A country’s infra-structure in ruins. An infant mortality rate that has shot up out of control, a massive increase in childhood diseases, poverty and degradation now widespread and violence that is endemic. All this was heaped on the innocent Iraqi people on the grounds of weapons of mass destruction that didn’t exist and an immanent threat to our country, that didn’t exist. So “It was the right decision.” For who, for the ordinary people of this country? For the ordinary people of Iraq? A resounding NO must be the answer to these questions. Then WHO? The only beneficiaries in this display of raw imperialist power is the corporate world, like vultures, they have moved in and are plundering the Iraqi resources and in most cases are funded by tax payers money. Names that are synonymous with corruption, at the top of this suppurating heap is Halliburton.
When is it justifiable to slaughter innocent civilians and destroy a country to settle a dispute between leaders ideology? When is it justifiable to slaughter innocent civilians and destroy a country to settle the differences in economic systems? There can be no justification for such actions but as long as we leave the control of our lives in the hands of the State then these will be the answers to all such problems. The State in its festering marriage with corporate power will always use force to take control of what it wants and to strengthen its control over what it has in the never ending drive for profit and power. The people are its pawns to be used as it sees fit.
There are alternatives, we could take control of our own lives by organising at community level and working in federation with other such communities. Working to short-circuit the State and its power, organising society to the needs of those involved. Basing our society on the simple principles of free association, voluntary co-operation and mutual aid. We should know by now that the State with its leaders and power hungry control freaks is redundant, the system of State and corporate power that control our lives for ever increasing profit and power must be firmly placed in the dustbin of history and seen as man’s darkest hour, a relic from a past barbaric age.
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