The worst remain on top?

Have you read the entire 'Cook resignation speech' in British Parliament? Interesting parts include

'Yet it is more than 30 years since resolution 242 called on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories.

We do not express the same impatience with the persistent refusal of Israel to comply.

I welcome the strong personal commitment that the prime minister has given to middle east peace, but Britain's positive role in the middle east does not redress the strong sense of injustice throughout the Muslim world at what it sees as one rule for the allies of the US and another rule for the rest.'
And
'Over the past decade that strategy destroyed more weapons than in the Gulf war, dismantled Iraq's nuclear weapons programme and halted Saddam's medium and long-range missiles programmes.

Iraq's military strength is now less than half its size than at the time of the last Gulf war. Ironically, it is only because Iraq's military forces are so weak that we can even contemplate its invasion. Some advocates of conflict claim that Saddam's forces are so weak, so demoralised and so badly equipped that the war will be over in a few days.

We cannot base our military strategy on the assumption that Saddam is weak and at the same time justify pre-emptive action on the claim that he is a threat.

Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of the term - namely a credible device capable of being delivered against a strategic city target.

It probably still has biological toxins and battlefield chemical munitions, but it has had them since the 1980s when US companies sold Saddam anthrax agents and the then British Government approved chemical and munitions factories.

Why is it now so urgent that we should take military action to disarm a military capacity that has been there for 20 years, and which we helped to create?

D.J

Unfortunately, those politicians who have some sense of integrity choose to quit.

The worst of the worst remain to "rule" the country. Can you guess where it all leads? Surely not progress...

I wonder what Ghandi would do if he was a member of British Parliament today. Would he set up a hunger strike in the chambers and use his parliamentary immunity to refuse to move out?

Tom

I can imagine that you (Tom) are really really really disgust by this actual world...

Issa

Not really. I just wonder how much more blind and illogical people on Earth can get...

Tom