[Peace-discuss] Desmond Tutu on the Bush/Blair/Obama war on Iraq

[Carl G. Estabrook]

> "On what grounds do we decide that Robert Mugabe should go the
> International Criminal Court, Tony Blair should join the international
> speakers' circuit, bin Laden should be assassinated, but Iraq should
> be invaded, not because it possesses weapons of mass destruction, as
> Mr Bush's chief supporter, Mr Blair, confessed last week, but in order
> to get rid of Saddam Hussein?
> 
> "The cost of the decision to rid Iraq of its by-all-accounts despotic
> and murderous leader has been staggering, beginning in Iraq itself.
> Last year, an average of 6.5 people died there each day in suicide
> attacks and vehicle bombs, according to the Iraqi Body Count project.
> More than 110,000 Iraqis have died in the conflict since 2003 and
> millions have been displaced. By the end of last year, nearly 4,500
> American soldiers had been killed and more than 32,000 wounded.
> 
> "On these grounds alone, in a consistent world, those responsible for
> this suffering and loss of life should be treading the same path as
> some of their African and Asian peers who have been made to answer for
> their actions in the Hague."
> 
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/02/desmond-tutu-tony-blair-iraq