Well Someone Has Got To Say It . . .

Why are we getting involved in Libya? Haven’t we learnt our lessons from previous attempts at world policing? In 2003 I was in favour of us going into Iraq because of the fact that Saddam Hussein was supposedly putting to death hundreds of people a day and doing terrible things such as gassing the Kurds. But here we are, after only a relatively few deaths in Libya, trying to once again to sort out another countries problems. The Labour party got so much stick over Iraq and I particularly feel sorry for Tony Blair who was only doing what he thought was right at the time. What we sometimes forget is that all military action was passed in our houses by a majority, and was also backed by the Tories. In fact it was only the Liberal Democrats who were against that war.

Funny how silent Nick Clegg has been on this new WAR in Libya, and I’m afraid WAR is what it is. At a time when we can’t afford to keep basic services in our country and can’t afford to pay military pilots and have had to make them redundant - we are going to war, again, what is the sense of this? Libya is an internal dispute Gaddafi has not brought any other country into this, unlike Iraq, where missiles were exploding in neighbouring countries.

I was in support of the Iraq war and now have now decided, on all the evidence presented to me, that war affects all civilians, breeds more terrorists and has lots more consequences than anyone can imagine.  So I have revised my view and am now of the opinion that any war is not worth all this and I have many friends who feel the same way. I bet if Cameron had a referendum on Libya tomorrow the people of this country would vote against any action. I have also come to the conclusion that once again all of this must really be about oil and the world’s current unstable economies. We wouldn’t dream of going into Zimbabwe – no oil! So I have filed this posting under the heading of “finance” and not “politics”.

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