The Good War?

I attended a meeting on Wednesday night in the House of Commons about the Iraq War Inquiry, which will probably start in September - leading members of the Stop the War Coalition were there, along with John Mc Donnell MP and Jeremy Corbyn MP. We discussed how to go about presenting evidence etc to the Inquiry. All of us were incredulous as to how Blair could be nominated to be President of the EU by the current government after all his war crimes. There was a time when Iraq was also sold as "the good war" - the war to rid Iraq of Saddam Hussein and when we were told that weapons of mass destruction were everywhere there, but it all turned out to be froth. Now is it supposed to be conveniently forgotten?

The journalist Seamus Milne from the Guardian, who opposed that war from the beginning, now gives his view on the latest war in Afghanistan here http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1358/27/

And if people want to hear what life is like in Afghanistan on the ground, then why not hear it from the lips of an Afghan MP? I will certainly be going along to hear what Afghans feel about NATO's and the UK's largesse in dropping bombs on them every day.

PUBLIC MEETING WITH AFGHAN MP MALALAI JOYA

The Afghan MP and campaigner for women's rights Malalai Joya
will be launching her new book Raising My Voice at a Stop the
War public meeting in London on Thursday 23 July.

Malalai Joya is often called "the bravest woman in
Afghanistan". Elected to the Afghan parliament in 2004 as the
youngest MP, she soon became a very vocal critic of the
warlords and criminals that dominate the parliament and the
widespread corruption in prime minister Karzai's government.

There have been several attempts on her life and the continual
death threats mean she needs constant protect from bodyguards.
In 2007 she was suspended from the parliament. (SEE
http://bit.ly/Bveth)

Early booking for this meeting is recommended. Tickets cost £4
/ £2 concessions and are available online: http://bit.ly/mWOzk