As Gordon Brown prepares to pull the troops out of Basra, Liz Davies warns that withdrawal is not enough
Liz Davies
Morning Star
Thursday 24 January, 2008
Half the population of Iraq is aged 16 or under. These children have lived their lives experiencing aggressive assaults on their country by the US and Britain.
First, economic sanctions and then military invasion and occupation. Their parents grew up during the Iran-Iraq war when the West funded Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons, which he used on the battlefield against Iran and against the Kurds, and lived through the aborted invasion of Iraq following Saddam's invasion of Kuwait. Saddam's dictatorship was the product of the US-backed Ba'athist coup in 1968.
If ever a country were entitled to reparations, Iraq is it.
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