And as the war continues and the it is revealed that the Karzai regime are in receipt of funds from Iran as well as everywhere else - "any gold will do" - the casualties in Afghanistan mount. On November 20th Stop the War will mount a "Time to go" demonstration in London calling for withdrawal of UK troops from Afghanistan. In the interim the annual conference is being held on Saturday in Conway Hall in central London. I will be going along with other Green Party delegates. I will also be standing for re-election to the Steering Committee of Stop the War as the Green Party representative.
Details of resolutions and speakers are here. Seamus Milne from the Guardian is one of the speakers and always is an interesting and inspirational speaker and critic. Joe Glenton, the former soldier jailed for refusing to serve in Afghanistan, will also be on the platform. News today that Blair will be brought back to the Chilcott Inquiry to explain gaps in his evidence. While all around the poor and the disabled are castigated and plunged into destitution, the war expenditure continues. As Wikileaks provides more really damaging information on what happened in the Iraq war, it can only be a matter of time before similar information emerges about the war in Afghanistan. Meanwhile the war is now in its 10th year, longer than the two world wars combined. Here is the anti-war song "Where the Giant Poppies Grow".
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