The Iraq war is Brown's war, a war he could have stopped
The Iraq inferno refuses to die down. Gordon Brown, Britain's forthcoming prime minister, is currently promoting his book on "courage" at various literary and Labour party venues. In both Bristol and Hay-on-Wye the question was raised: if he were really courageous, why did he not admit that Iraq was a mistake? It is one thing to admit, as he has, that "mistakes have been made", but that is hardly controversial. What of all those leaks and murmurs that he was really against the war?
If Brown really had courage he would have opposed it when doing so might have meant something, when he and most cabinet and party colleagues knew it was a mistake back in 2003.… Seguir leyendo »