FIVE BRITISH HOSTAGES HELD IN IRAQ

Dr George Barnsby | The Barnsby Blog, July 20, 2008

Those of us who believe that Britain has no right be in someone else’s country will have the dismal privilege of having proved right. Last week were we saying that it was useless to shed crocodile tears over the death of a female in Afghanistan because she was a murderer in a foreign land.

Now no doubt we shall be asked to pray for our brave hostages in Iraq when we have said all along that British and US imperialist troops have only two alternatives - leave now or find yourself pushed out.

What has been the reaction to this perfectly logical event. Our Foreign Secretary Miliband has nothing he can threaten the hostage takers with, so in fact all he can do is call them naughty people. Our hopeless and helpless Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has apparently said tonight that there will be staged withdrawal from Iraq, which is the reverse of what he was saying yesterday when it was we’re staying till the job is done. But the man with most to lose in my view is David Cameron. He had a chance to become the next Prime Minister if the coming election whenever it comes produces a hung Parliament. But his problem is that it can only be in a coalition of Tories and Lib Dems who have opposed the war in Iraq from the beginning. So when this was mooted about two years ago, Cameron was opposed to the war and was even prepared to contact me to tell me so. Now the Lib Dems will not join a coalition with him because the situation is now so advanced that we are already being thrown out of Iraq. The only solution at this stage is a coalition of Lib Dems, Tories who oppose the war and Labour MPs who oppose the war. Of these there were over 100 in 2003 at the start of the war. Certainly the position is unprecedented and the war mongers and war criminals have now surely shot their bolt.