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Tue Dec-21-04 02:27 PM
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'Mother to mother' plea to Cherie over Scottish soldier killed in Iraq. |
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Anti-war campaigner makes film revealing poverty which forced her son to join up. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1376968,00.htmlI really wonder how Bush and Blair sleep at night.
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'Cherie Blair said she cried when her son Euan went away to university,' said Gentle. 'But at least they will get to spend Christmas together as a happy family. For the past six months, I have cried myself to sleep every single night. My family and others who've lost sons in Iraq are dreading Christmas. I can't bear to put up decorations or to open Christmas cards.'
Gentle hopes the film will persuade Mrs Blair to influence her husband in two ways: first, to ask him to bring British troops home; and second, to urge him to visit Pollok to see the unemployment that forced Gordon to join the army.
'Some people say that soldiers have to expect to die or be injured when they sign up for the armed services,' she said. 'Maybe so. But Gordon didn't join out of any burning desire to defend his country.
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