Now here’s an idea:
[H]ow to prevent the situation in Iraq from getting even worse, without putting hundreds more innocent mothers through the agonies of bereavement? Well, here is the chance for the hawks of 2003 either to atone for their sins, or to demonstrate that they still believe they were in the right. Every politician in the United Kingdom and the United States (and Australia and Spain and Poland and Thailand and Honduras and Tonga and every other country in the coalition) who voted for the war, and every journalist or other public figure who supported it, should be sent to Iraq immediately. As each neocon senator or hawkish hack emerges blinking onto the streets of Basra or Fallujah, a legitimate grunt or squaddie or Royal can be sent home. I’m particularly keen to see Melanie Phillips dressed as Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now.
I wonder how willing this lot would be to sign up?
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