I'm tired of the poor dead Shia being used as a post-facto justification for our war in Iraq.
In an especially shameless effort this week, William Shawcross sought to use the dead Shia as a way to attack Robin Cook and Clare Short.
No one asked the American or British people to liberate the Shia. We were told that Saddam Hussein posed an immediate, vital threat to US interests. That we had to protect ourselves from the prospect of a surprise attack on our allies in the Gulf.
No one said "Saddam has to go because he kills the Shia". If they had proposed such an expedition, they would have lost the vote in record numbers.
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