Relatives of dead soldiers condemn Blair and Bush

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Relatives of the three Black Watch soldiers killed in Iraq have lashed out at the government's decision to send them into a more dangerous zone. The younger brother of Private Paul Lowe, 19, a Black Watch soldier himself who only recently returned from Basra, said his "brother, comrade and friend" had died in a war over "oil and money" and demanded that his regiment return home.

Private Scott McArdle's uncle condemned Tony Blair and George Bush for sending the troops into a "death trap".Privates Lowe and McArdle, 22, and Sergeant Stuart Gray, 31, were killed by a suicide car bomber as they inspected vehicles by the roadside a few miles from their new camp south of Baghdad on Thursday. They had been there just a few days and had been due to fly home last month after serving six months in the area.

Martin McArdle said he feared the situation would become another Vietnam and that the conflict was "George Bush's war". Of Mr Blair, he said: "I just hope he can live with himself." Private Craig Lowe, 18, said: "We should get them all out of there. If not, there's going to be a lot more of them like this and there's going to be a lot more upset people. Paul told us he would hopefully be home for Christmas, but now we are just going to have to try to deal with what happened."

Earlier, the defence secretary, Geoff Hoon, was furious at a claim that he had been duplicitous in his justification of why British troops were being sent further into the US zone. He said he did not believe the families' anger at their relatives being deployed in the Sunni "triangle of death" was justified.


http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1345012,00.html

[girl gone mad]

1. Way to kick them when they're down, Geoff Hoon.

A real class act.

[PartyPooper]

2. The British should withdraw all of their troops.

NOW!

[xchrom]

3. geoff hoon is an idiot

[NNN0LHI]

4. I think it is time for people to start taking blame for their own actions

I bet every single one of these family members have a photo of themselves standing proudly with these soldiers in their dress uniforms and with great big possum eating grins on their faces. Did they think these guys joined the military to play Tiddly Winks? Better think again.

Don

[ArthurRuger]

7. Possum Eating Grins..Tiddly Winks?? Try Courage to Speak Out...

Military Families Speak Out
http://www.mfso.org/
organization has 2000 members now, military families speaking out against the war.

Iraq Veterans Against the War
http://www.ivaw.net/

Operation Truth
http://optruth.com/main.cfm?actionId=globalShowStaticContent&screenKey=hear&htmlId=1052

US Labor Against the War
http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/index.php

These just for starters, there are more organizations that share our common message.

It would be helpful to recognize that you need our voices too, and respect the difficult uphill climb we have in trying to speak out and break through.

It's not helpful to denigrate military families or the courageous troops who do speak out and paint them all with a broad brush as your comment seems to have done.

[lebkuchen]

5. Blair told Americans to "unite" post election

Try minding your own backyard, Tony.

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

6. Humm, didn't tony get the memo headlined?

~Fuck You Tony~

Do your own ass kissing but

We are united alright knowing what a sell out you are!

[JoFerret]

8. The storm of protest

in the UK only grows. May it soon sweep Blair away.