Labour must dare to speak for Britain - and Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1310709,00.html
Holding Blair to account is not only right, it is in the party's own
interests
Seumas Milne
Thursday September 23, 2004
The Guardian
The price paid by Britain for Tony Blair's decision to join the
invasion of Iraq has until now been relatively low. British casualties
have been proportionately fewer than those of the Americans. By
occupying the Shia-dominated south, British troops were at least
initially spared the scale of guerrilla attacks that greeted US forces
from the first days. Few Britons had until this week been caught up in
the kidnappings sweeping Iraq and, despite dire government warnings,
Britain has so far been spared the kind of revenge attack suffered,
for example, by Spain - which Blair was told to expect in intelligence
briefings in the run-up to war.
Seumas Milne
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