Was The Labour Party a War Monger ?

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The question must be asked why did the UK side with the USA to invade Iraq in 2003 and Afghanistan in 2001?

Was it really and truly to locate Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) or could it be for some other intriguing reason?

If the plan was to find WMD it failed as there were none.

But what plan of battle had been thought out? Clearly it was discovered that the WMD did not exist but it would seem that no proper plan had been drawn up or thought out properly.More importantly what would the exit strategy be and indeed was there an exit plan?

Firstly before you invade you need to have an exit strategy.

Before committing your troops and human lives to a war unless you are a complete stupid you must have a very clear exit plan. If you do not then you are committing your country and their brave soldiers to an indefinite period of conflict with unknown casualties and serious loss of life.

If this was intended to be his defining moment it was a total failure with grave and serious implications for this country which will run for years in the cost of human lives and suffering.

Before making a decison to invade obviously any careful leader would naturally wish to cover all the bases. Surely that is simple common sense is it not?

It would be your responsibilty to make sure that the Army had all the proper equipment to do the job properly and safely.

As but one example you would not commit the Army with out ensuring that they had the proper armoured plated vehicles and not simply the snatch Land Rover's which were employed in Northen Ireland and built to run on a tarmac road not in the desert.

Again you would ensure that they had Helicopters that were properly equipped for example available with winches so they could rescue casualties from the ground, with out having to land in a mine field. You would believe that this would be an essential requirement wouldn't you?

Very sadly Corporal Mark Wight died and the Oxford coroner attributed his death on a lack of equipment and he stated that those responsible for allowing such a situation to occur should "hang their heads in shame". Clearly Gordon Brown and his Labour Government should hold their heads in shame.

With a Helicopter with a winch he and his comrades could have been lifted from the ground. On 14 January 2008, the Guardian Newspaper reported that Wright might have been saved if the British Army had been provided with adequate numbers of winch-equipped helicopters. Unfortunately most winches had been withdrawn due to a fault in a sub-system which meant that Wright and his fellow comrades had to wait over five hours before being evacuated by a US Blackhawk Helicopter.

This makes me very angry to think that courageous and brave young men from the British Army should lose their lives because of lack of equipment!!!. Gordon Brown was the Prime Minister at that time (2008) I think he is one that needs to hold his head in shame. After all he is the man that told the Chilcott enquiry that funding to the armed forces had increased in real terms every year but he had to withdraw that statement as in fact they had only increased in cash terms. Yet again he got it wrong.

If it had been my decision that there was absolutely no alternative other than to invade then I would have used my brain before commiting my country and of course I would have involved all the members of my cabinet including the Chancellor of the Exchequer who claims he was ignored and never consulted.

The one person in the Cabinet who should be involved would have to be the Chancellor of the Exchequer who at the time was Gordon Brown but as usual he denies any involvement or takes any responsibility. I guess he was hiding in his bunker trying to invent mores stealth taxes!

I am not speaking with the benefit of hindsight as this is glaringly obvious to a junior chess player. You do not throw all your pieces into a chess game with out some thought. You place your pieces in the right places to help plan your opening moves, your defence and attack. It's called having a plan!

When all of this was going on where was Mr Prudent the ex Chancellor of the Exchequer Brown he appears to have stated that he was not involved or in deed took any part in the decision making process. How can this be? Surely he would have to budget for the war effort would he not?

Any normal Chancellor would insist on knowing any potential committment least the electorate would say he had not done his job.

There is no doubt that he completely failed in this and he bottled out of doing his job properly ensuring that he was kept fully in the picture over Blair's intentions over the Iraq War.

It seems to me that Labour can no longer be trusted as they have completely lost their moral compass.

History speaks volumes in that Blair's first six years in office as PM he had ordered British troops into battle five times, which is more than any other Prime Minister in British history.

The conclusion that I have to make is that Blair is a War Monger.

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