MP brands Blair war criminal

R rhisiart at earthlink.net
Thu Mar 27 11:14:38 PST 2003


GB is a signatory to the new international criminal court which shrub refused to sign onto. TB'd better worry.

according to the CBC, the british military is consulting lawyers with expertise in international law regarding military moves, strategy and targets in iraq. they have a pack of lawyers in iraq with them.

R

----- Original Message -----

From: Carl Remick

To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com

Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 8:01 AM

Subject: MP brands Blair war criminal

[I hope the sentiments expressed by Labour MP Tam Dalyell (below) prove

widely influential. Clearly US/UK imperialism would not have reached its

current advanced state of malignancy without the unctuous Rt. Rev. Tony

Blair providing a moral gloss for every exercise of allied armed might going

back to Kosovo. Blair well deserves the fate of earlier religious fanatic

Oliver Cromwell, whose head was displayed on a pole at Westminster Hall for

over 20 years.]

Blair, the war criminal

Tam Dalyell

Thursday March 27, 2003

The Guardian

My constituency Labour party has just voted to recommend that Tony Blair

reconsider his position as party leader because he gave British backing to a

war against Iraq without clearly expressed support from the UN.

I agree with this motion. I also believe that since Mr Blair is going ahead

with his support for a US attack without unambiguous UN authorisation, he

should be branded as a war criminal and sent to The Hague.

... many in this country think the fundamentalists now running the White

House are using Blair's support as a fig leaf against their critics. It is

useful for these people to say to their opponents: "But a British Labour

prime minister supports us."

If Britain had made it clear months ago that we would not be party to a US

attack on Iraq, US public opinion itself might have stopped this war. ...

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,922541,00.html>

Carl

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