THEY SAID | IT TURNED OUT |
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Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. |
They had no WMD. (Strangely, the USA and the UK happen to.) |
Iraq was a real and present threat. |
There was no evidence of any intent to attack Britain, with or without such weapons. |
Saddam Hussein abused human rights. |
Both the British and American armies have been found to have been torturing prisoners. British security services have been implicated in the abuses at Guantanamo Bay. Britain is now the subject of a damning report by the International Committee of the Red Cross. |
They would 'minimise' civilian casualties. |
They have used cluster bombs, which are illegal, not effective against military targets, and have left thousands of unexploded 'bomblets'. These in effect become land mines: the very weapons against which the late Princess Diana campaigned so fervently. They have also used 'depleted' uranium tipped bombs, the radioactivity from which causes cancer and birth defects, for generations to come. |
It would be over in 4 or 5 days. |
Two years later... |
America said it wanted regime change in Iraq. |
No matter how evil a dictator, deposition by military invasion, without United Nations authority, is against international law: the very kind of law they claimed Saddam Hussein had dared to defy. The Secretary General of the UN has now declared the invasion illegal. |
Saddam Hussein gassed 5,000 people in Halabja. |
Britain, France and the USA supplied the gas, delivery system, and consultancy on the most effective deployment of the poison. |
There was 'Resistance' in Fallujah. |
Last November, the military launched a devastating assault on the city. The aid agencies weren't allowed in. An estimated 6,000 people were slaughtered there alone. |
We are neither promoting nor supporting any candidate or party. We simply want the removal from office of every MP who voted for war. |
Did you support us on 15 February 2003, trying to "Stop the War" on Iraq? Before you vote, stop and think, "Am I voting for a Warmonger?" We implore you to choose from among the other candidates, based on the other issues, as you feel. |
Remember - the eyes of the world are on us. |
To look up the war voting record of any MP, see www.stopthewarmongers.org.uk. |