Tony Blair testimony on Iraq
29 January 2010
As Tony Blair gives his six hours of testimony to the Chilcott Inquiry on Iraq, Phelim Mac Cafferty, joint international coordinator of the Green Party, will be one of a number of speakers at an anti-war rally outside the QEII Conference Centre.
Mac Cafferty, in advance of his speech, said:
"Blair never had the evidence. He never had UN approval. He never had this country's approval. He never had the support of his own party. And, while Blair and his cronies waged war on the people of Iraq, they also waged war on all of us. Under New Labour, we have a quarter of the world's CCTV. We have the most atrocious detention period in the so-called free world. And when 56 people died on London's Underground and hundreds more were maimed on 7th July 2005, Blair's war came home, and his bloody handprints were all over the bomb scenes."
"The illegal invasion and war in Iraq are an outrage to anyone who values human rights. There is endless misery in Iraq -- the flattening of Fallujah, with bombs weighing thousands of pounds, the extensive use of white phosphorous, the maiming of children who will grow up hating the West because we bombed them. Iraq is littered to this day, with unexploded cluster bombs, an economy in tatters, racism and bigotry on the increase."
"Iraqis deserve the right to a healthy environment and the right to self-determination. Our politicians must be challenged when they insist on continuing with the morally bankrupt military project in Iraq. We must resist the further erosion of our civil liberties. Most of all, we demand a progressive foreign policy. We demand a different Middle East - one where people and our planet are put first."
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