Hi there Rach. Please accept my apoligies, bt i'm falling asleep here so will keep it short.
Thanks for your reply, and here is a short reply. I will try to elaborate tomorrow
Firstly, i respect you for standing up for what you beleive in. My response to "lame protestors" spoiling it for people such as yourself is a view guaged by many people. You spend time and effort on your protest, and i beleive they are being ruined by people jumping on the band wagon. You could answer all my questions, however, if i asked these qustions to many of the protestors, as has been done, i would be met with displays of
"I have come here to support my mates"
"War is wrong cos people die"
"--Turns red and shrugs shoulders"
etc.
I beleive people like this are spoiling your name.
UN aid to Iraq, in the form of various UN programs must go through the B'ath Party. Iraq has refused the UN to distribute aid inside Iraq, therefore we cannot be held responsible for it not reaching the Children, and Saddam will not allow us the responsiblity. There is very credible proof (from the countries invloved) that iraq sells medical supplies to poor african nations who desperately need it wherever it comes from. If only he allowed to UN to do its job properly, perhaps we could have halted these deaths.
You T-Shirt with no blood for oil has lost me some of the repect that i held for you though. It has been unoquivocally stated any money from oil will be held in trust for the rebuilding of Iraq, this will legally formed, there will be NO way to siphon of this money out of Iraq. Most Middle Eastern governments have dropped using the Oil issue as a protest for this reason.
yes, people in the UN have resigned, many more have stayed on.
Have you read the legally binding contract to rebuild iraq. Its too big to list here, but i suggest you read it.
Have you heard the official responses from organisations such as Christian Aid and Amnesty International?
Also another comment which diminished your statement was
"If you don't want them to have them. Don't give them. If you want to know what they have, check your ******* invoice!
"
Its FACT that most iraqi weaponry comes from France and Russia, with most of the bio-chem technologu coming from the former East Germany. I say most, not all. I know we sold some.
However, past mistakes are NO excuse for innaction now.
I gain most of my information not from the BBC as you suggest. Whilst at uni, i carried out a MASSIVE study on this issue with the university association. This included many interviews with exiled Iraqi's here, huge amounts of information gathering etc.
I think you would suprised at the kind of figures we are talking about that are attributee to death by Saddam. All i will say is that it is measured in millions.
Iraq has suffered greatly under Saddam Hussain. Knowing what i do, i cannot and will not refute my support for this war.
I would also greatly appreciate it is you edit your post to include your reply OUtside my quote, and remove my name from the bottom of your statement and put it at the bottom of mine instead
Mal
Extracts from Lt Col Tim Collins, who leads the battlegroup of the 1st Bn of the
Royal Irish, told his troops on the eve of war:
"
We go to liberate not to conquer. We will not fly our flags in their
country. We are entering Iraq to free a people and the only flag
which will be flown in that ancient land is their own. Show respect
for them.
If you harm the regiment or its history by over-enthusiasm in
killing or in cowardice, know it is your family who will suffer.
Tread lightly there. You will see
things that no man could pay to see and you will have to go a long
way to find a more decent, generous and upright people than the
Iraqis. You will be embarrassed by their hospitality even though
they have nothing.
Don't treat them as refugees, for they are in their own country.
Their children will be poor, in years to come they will know that
the light of liberation in their lives was brought by you.
As for ourselves, let's bring everyone home and leave Iraq a better place for us having been there.
And this was on BBC news too.