You can watch highlights of the Sky News debate on the Iraq war here. 82% of people said the invasion was wrong.
Worth watching just for Times Comment Editor Daniel Finkelstein's attempt to portray George Galloway's labelling of him as an Israel supporter, as actually calling him a Jew.
Meanwhile, Craig Murray caught a report on BBC World Service saying that the government had concluded that the Lancet's calculation of 655,000 dead in Iraq was "if anything, an underestimate". The news, along with the Department for International Development's report, now seems to have been buried.
The British Government's Global War on Terror -
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17393.htm>Video Shows U.S. Soldiers Killing Unarmed Iraqi Civilians
Where is all the Iraqi WMD then?
Where are all the bigmouths and screaming headlines about Saddam and the claim he could attack us all in our sleep in 45 minutes?
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=12282>Hostages to Policy: What We Know About Waste and War in Iraq
by Tom Engelhardt
07 Mar 2007
We know that hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have lost their lives since the Bush administration invaded their country in March 2003, that almost two million may have fled to other countries, and that possibly millions more have been displaced from their homes in ethnic-cleansing campaigns. We also know that an estimated 4.5 million Iraqi children are now malnourished and that this is but "the tip of the iceberg" in a country where diets are generally deteriorating, while children are dying of preventable diseases in significant numbers; that the Iraqi economy is in ruins and its oil industry functioning at levels significantly below its worst moments in Saddam Hussein's day -- and that there is no end in sight for any of this....
Posted by: joe90 | 27 March 2007 at 06:08 PM
Direct link to the video for those not using Windows-based computers.
Posted by: Mustafa Arif | 29 March 2007 at 04:21 AM