Families of soldiers killed in Iraq launch party (Britain)

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Families of soldiers killed in Iraq launch party to challenge ministers
Whenever news of British military deaths in the Middle East flashes on to their TV screen, Reg and Sally Keys become silent and you can see anxiety wash across their faces.

This week has been particularly tough; three soldiers killed in Afghanistan, one in Iraq. Each time it happens, it reminds them of their son, Thomas, one of six royal military policemen killed in Iraq in 2003.

The Keys are among 115 families whose sons have been killed in Iraq. But this week, one of the worst for British casualties, has been different for the bereaved; this week, they have been doing something about it.

Mr Keys, a 54-year-old former paramedic who stood against Tony Blair in Sedgefield at the general election, is at the centre of moves to form a new political movement aimed at bringing down ministers who failed to vote against the war in Iraq. In the next two weeks he and a small group of others will meet to lay down the foundations of Spectre, a political party that will target the people they hold culpable for the deaths of their sons in what they see as an illegal war.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,1837762,00.html

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1. Let's never forget the 115 Britsh military deaths in Iraq either as well

...as our own 2,586 dead and over 18,000 U.S. troops who have been seriously wounded and disabled.