[Morecambe Ex Pat]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Of course that is the case, but to blame the people of the UK.....many of whom demonstrated against the conflict. We, the people,were powerless in this matter.
There may be members who come on the forum who have sons and daughters serving in the forces.....there may even be members who lost family in that conflict too.
It is disrespectful to post in the terms that Accyx posted.
I take no blame for the conflict, but I do lay the blame at the feet of Tony Blair.....and George Bush.
It has been shown that both of these men decided long before the conflict, what was to happen in this area of the world. It was they who poked the hornets nest.......not the people of either country.
Yes the world will remember the countries which set it all off, but, we have to keep reiterating that the people were lied to......and that armies go where governments send them.

None of the wars throughout history have been the doing of ordinary people but the work of egotistical politicians who think they have a right to take what belongs to others. As a country we have been doing that since the Norman conquests and it carried on while we illegally built our empire.

Unfortunately, history records the name of the country which did the invading and only the academics know the circumstances of what started the conflicts.