A headline in one of the UK's leading papers today, over a picture of an overturned and burned out tank in which six U.S. soldiers and an interpreter died told us that Iran is orchestrating an offensive aimed at driving the Americans and British out of Iraq.
The story that followed reported that new alliances have been forged between Sunni insurrectionists (they're not insurgents, OK, they'e bloody insurrectionists) and Shia militia, Al Quaeda terror groups and Syrian geurillas have increased the strike capabilities of the Iraqis.
This is the response to Bush's surge of course.
Regular readrs of my articles may recall I predicted about a year ago that the conflict would escalate towards full scale war in late 2007 or early 2008 as defeat for the religious right in the U.S. Presidential elections started to look certain.
Earlier this year it was reported that U.S. and British troops had been carrying out covdert operations inside Iran with the aim of stirring up unrest.
Now our discredited and deluded politicians are trying to fool us by crying foul when the Iranians retaliate.
It is time we took to the streets to put an end to this insanity before we are counting our dead in hundreds rather than tens each week
Ian Thorpe's Anti - War Poetry
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http://www.stopwar.org.uk/ Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend.
Unfortunately I don't walk very far these days. Its hgetting better but after 10 years being paralyzed and fighting the NHS for the physiotherapy I needed my muscles are very fragile and start protesing very quickly.
I have the link now though and I will give the march plenty of promo at Machiavelli and Boggart Blog
A year ago you and I and others were saying the war was lost and we should get our troops out. People yelled at us that if the allies pulled out things would get worse.
Well our governments did not pull out and it got worse.
Sadly I don't think there is any more chance they will take notice now.
Any time. I have several charity gigs lined up in the coming months at which I will perform anti - war poems and do some ~Ben Elton style comedy (think Bill Hicks with an English accent)
It will not do any good but it will make me feel that at least I tried.
You can twirl my baton any time.
Ian
The Edinburgh Branch of the Stop the War Coalition are arranging coaches to send protesters to the next G8 (can't remember if it's Germany or Belgium...!)
I know you are probably right, but we should not give up on lost causes or we ourselves may become lost.