Scottish Socialist Party National Convenor Colin Fox will be one of the keynote speakers at the Scottish Stop The War Conference in Glasgow this weekend.
The Lothians MSP will tell his audience in Glasgow University that it is now time for Britain to end it’s ‘catastrophic‘involvement in the Iraq war.
He will tell the conference
‘The carnage and civil war in Iraq shows no sign of ending. Indeed its brutality worsens every day. The misery which ordinary Iraqis face involves power cuts and shortage and a constant threat of violence and death. Figures from the United Nations show that 100 Iraqis are murdered every day. These numbers being killed are equivalent to the 9/11 outrage happening every three months.
It is time Tony Blair accepted the fact that he is, together with George Bush, responsible for this catastrophe. His decision to send British troops to fight in an illegal war represents a catastrophic failure of policy which is having unimaginably tragic consequences for everyone.
The presence of British and American troops is unquestionably exacerbating a brutal civil war. The Iraqi insurgency is driven by the fact that there are foreign armies occupying their country. And the Iraqi government which the Americans installed does not enjoy the support of the people.
It is my view that this situation can only be resolved in the long term by the immediate withdrawal of British and American troops. Their presence is resented by Iraqi’s and plays no valuable purpose.’
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It may and probably is the case that Britain along with many other if not all nations may in the future face what Iraq is facing today?.
Fact...
Mankind is using the total output of three planets.As we know there is only one planet what mankind is doing is unstainable in the short term.If we look around us at the degradation of communities and society as a whole where wealth is ever concentrated more to the few I can see only that things are getting worse and worse.I will say that there will come a point were even if we take all the wealth from the few (if they allow us,I don`t think so?) and speard it to everyone it will not be enough to go around.Indeed is what we see in Iraq not a warning of what becomes when one nation has something another nation not wants but needs to survive OIL.Don`t forget capitalism itself is based on just one premise it is the credo they/we live under/by "The strong survive the weak go under".
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