[news] Supporting Tony Blair is Supporting Mass Murder

[Resist!ca]

"Let's pause to consider the truth. When (Tony) Blair demonstrably lied about weapons of mass destruction in order to help an extremist regime launch an unprovoked attack on Iraq, a defenceless country, the Foreign Office's deputy legal adviser Elizabeth Wilmshurst resigned, calling it, correctly, a 'crime of aggression'....The blood shed by more than 100,000 civilians killed and 300,000 injured is her and our witness....Almost everything about a Blair regime was known before it was elected. Blair's Vichy-like devotion to Washington was known: read his speeches about a 'new order led by America'. His devotion to (right-wing Australian newspaper magnate & union buster) Rupert Murdoch, who flew him and Cherie Booth around the world first class, was known. His devotion to an extreme neoliberal Thatcherite economics was known....His class contempt for the poor was known; his pre-election attacks on single mothers passed quickly into law, assisted by the majority of his new, opportunistic female MPs....If shame has no place in what is called 'public life', then the rest of us should break their silence for them. The Guardian says the electorate is 'cross' with Blair. Cross? Such a genteel word. Supporting Blair, in his propaganda and his contemptuous need for another term of office, is supporting mass murder."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/3/16/151721/384