| It remains to be seen who really perpetrated these attacks. It remains to be seeen whether the public will ever have reason for confidence that it knows who perpetrated these attacks. But in coming to terms with these cruel attacks on defenseless civilians, one thing is worth remembering: since the illegal Anglo-American occupation of Iraq, bombings that kill civilians have become almost daily events in Iraq. Retaliatory bombings in London could, therefore, have been expected. Furthermore, these bombings, if they prove to have been motivated by revenge for the carnage let loose in Iraq by the illegal Anglo-American invasion, provide no moral grounds for the continued occupation of Iraq, let alone a justification for new, aggressive military action by Britain.
Of one thing you can be sure, however. Neither Blair nor Bush will acknowledge that the attacks in London are a consequence their illegal war on Iraq. On the contrary, they will insist that the bombings justify their past war crimes. We now know that Bush and Blair illegally bombed Iraq before the official declaration of war in the hope of provoking an aggressive response that would provide an acceptable justification for a full scale Anglo-American attack. Naturally, therefore, they will find new justification for their aggressive war on Iraq in any violent reaction by the victim.
It may ultimately be shown, or at least claimed, that the London bombings were not retaliation for the invasion of Iraq. If so, be skeptical about any theory concerning the culprits from Tony Blair, sponsor of the "dodgy dossier" on Iraq's WMD or George Bush who offered Americans his own dodgy dossier on Saddam's alleged persuit of "Niger yellowcake. |
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