Jhee 16 Years Already?

[spathiphyllum]

16 years ago on this day the war on Iraq began.

More than one million Iraqis lost their lives.

The ambition was (according to Blair), to remove Suddam Hussein from power, and disarm Iraq of it's weapons of mass destruction.

Weapons of mass destruction were never found.

[naomi24]

And .....

[Zacs-Master]

All true. Although I'd like to check the 1 million figure.

[spathiphyllum]

And?.. Well if the war never began i'm not sure if i'd be able to fill up my van with petrol to get to work tomorrow

[jno]

Wasn’t there also some proposal to improve the lot of women, or was that Afghanistan? Oh well, I hope it worked.

[spathiphyllum]

ZM the death toll is apparently very murky

[Zacs-Master]

Precisely.

[spathiphyllum]

I've seen figures as high as 1.2 million and figgures as low (relatively) as 115thousand

[ABerrant]

16 years ago on this day the war on Iraq began.

The ambition was (according to Blair), to disarm Iraq of it's weapons of mass destruction.

6 years later, ahead of the Chilcot, the ambition was (according to Blair), to remove Saddam Hussein from power.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/12/tony-blair-iraq-chilcot-inquiry

[ABerrant]

^ Chilcot inquiry

[retrocop]

And.............Spath continues to support Labour then lead by a war criminal and now a Marxist Hippy trot who supportsnthe regime in Venezuela. Lovely bedfellows ha.

[spathiphyllum]

Just because a conservative puts on a red cap, doesn't make him a true labour. Why else did everyone call this demonic wave "new labour" ?

[retrocop]

Spath
There has not been a true Labour leader since Aneurin Bevan.

[retrocop]

Correction . Not Labour Leader. Labour Minister.

[-Talbot-]

spathiphyllum
And?.. Well if the war never began i'm not sure if i'd be able to fill up my van with petrol to get to work tomorrow



Petrol?
You haven't got a van have you?

[Baldric]

// fill up my van with petrol to get to work tomorrow //

Really, . . . . working tomorrow?

[spathiphyllum]

20:15/16

i won't disagree with that

[spathiphyllum]

baldric, 6 till 11 tomorrow

[spathiphyllum]

I clear a nursery playground early hours then onto a sweet old lady known as betty, sweet betty. she's not black.