I was 12 when I listened to Powell's UN speech on the radio, and was just at the cusp of having the level of analytical thinking to think at the end "that sounds like a bunch of bullshit."
Only one leader in the Labour Party resigned over Iraq (Robin Cook), though obviously there were backbench members who voted against it and ones like C…
I was 12 when I listened to Powell's UN speech on the radio, and was just at the cusp of having the level of analytical thinking to think at the end "that sounds like a bunch of bullshit."
Only one leader in the Labour Party resigned over Iraq (Robin Cook), though obviously there were backbench members who voted against it and ones like Corbyn who spoke at the massive rallies against the war. There were plenty of times when someone major like Powell could have undercut the credibility of the march to war but chose not to, and I doubt many of them honestly believed in either the WMD argument or Saddam's connections to 9/11. Wolfowitz and all the Project for a New American Century people who flooded into the GWB administration had been talking about invading Iraq (just cause, basically) for at least a decade.
I was 12 when I listened to Powell's UN speech on the radio, and was just at the cusp of having the level of analytical thinking to think at the end "that sounds like a bunch of bullshit."
Only one leader in the Labour Party resigned over Iraq (Robin Cook), though obviously there were backbench members who voted against it and ones like Corbyn who spoke at the massive rallies against the war. There were plenty of times when someone major like Powell could have undercut the credibility of the march to war but chose not to, and I doubt many of them honestly believed in either the WMD argument or Saddam's connections to 9/11. Wolfowitz and all the Project for a New American Century people who flooded into the GWB administration had been talking about invading Iraq (just cause, basically) for at least a decade.