Seven years on, death and destruction continue to haunt Iraq

Seven years on, death and destruction continue to haunt Iraq
Ruth Marr 
Fatima Ahmed was born in Fallujah with deformities that include two heads


October 12, 2010

Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis would perhaps have taken issue with Doug 
Maughan’s defence of Tony Blair, but they can’t because they are dead, killed in 
Mr Blair’s illegal war.

The children they left behind, all those whose homes were bombed to rubble, the 
soldiers who were sent to war on a lie, some returning mentally and physically 
scarred, and the many who came home in coffins, may also have disagreed with Mr 
Maughan.

The weapons of mass destruction, the excuse used by Mr Blair to justify his 
side-stepping of the United Nations, and leading the UK into a totally 
unnecessary war, did not turn up in Iraq, but anyone wishing to find any need go 
no further than the Clyde.

Mr Maughan, on no evidence that I can see, trots out the latest excuse used by 
Mr Blair and his supporters that Saddam would have developed them anyway.

Seven years on, death and destruction continue to haunt Iraq, and nowhere more 
so than in the city of Fallujah, where babies continue to be born with serious 
heart problems, horrific physical deformities, and with mental abnormalities.

For the mothers of Fallujah who have given birth to babies with two heads, or 
with no heads at all, it is impossible to imagine that they will ever recover 
from the horrors of Mr Blair’s unjustifiable war.

Ruth Marr,

Stirling.