Unwanted, unloved and achieving nothing

[NNN0LHI]

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/andrew_murray/2006/05/give_basra_back_to_its_people.html

Four or perhaps five British soldiers died in Basra at the weekend, together with an unknown number of civilians, possibly including two children.

The British army says the children "could not" have been shot by occupying troops. This may be true, but the MoD would say it anyway - just as every time a US or British bomb hit an Iraqi market place during the 2003 war the incident was mysteriously attributed to Iraqi anti-aircraft fire.

We do know that British troops torture, abuse and occasionally murder Iraqi civilians: we have the pictures. We also know that sometimes they dress up as members of Moqtada al-Sadr's "Mahdi army" and drive around Basra in a car full of explosives, shooting policemen dead and having to be ram-raided out of jail by colleagues tanks.

These latest deaths can, at any event, be added to the account of the Bush-Blair lawless war against, and subsequent occupation of, Iraq; and, in the longer view, to the record of British neocolonialism in the Middle East.

[villager]

1. I thought the headline was about Bush!

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[Proud2BAmurkin]

2. ditto rofl

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