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Former deputy head of MI6: IRAQ War will mean submission to an American empire

Epimenedes | 27.02.2003 19:57

In his speech in the House of Lords on February 26, Lord Bruce of Donnington warned that war on Iraq will implicitly mean the end of the global political order as we know it, and the beginning of an American despotism

Lord Bruce of Donnington, former deputy head of MI6, warned in a powerful speech in the House of Lords that war in itself was disgusting, but that it moreover would lay the foundations for an American despotism:

"I do not believe in war because I think it's one of the most immoral acts that organized society can perpetrate. We talk of collateral damage in the event of war. I wonder if you really understand what is meant by collateral damage? They are going to be blown up and torn up; men, women, and children. One of the cardinal tenets of my party [the Labour Party] is the wickedness of war. War is an evil thing. This fact is not a thing to be brushed over, it is not something to be set aside. It is a terrible thing and has terrible consequences for all the individuals concerned. If we should go to war we should be implicitly ending the whole political structure of the world as we know it. We shall be destroying that civil structure; we shall be substituting it with the power and authority of one state: the United States, who will thereafter be conducting the general affairs of mankind."

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He is quite right

27.02.2003 22:00

Except that he doesn't mention the already ongoing war and the genocide it's created, unless it's somewhere else in his speech. Is there a link?

karlof1

President Strangelove

28.02.2003 01:59

I find it fascinating that someone who has such demented views on foriegn policy , amongst many other issues , in fact had never travelled outside the U.S before his very dubious election in 2000. Obviously he is exactly the right sort of fellow to pass judgement on how peoples lives shall be run from the mere distance of 6000 miles.

marco

Has he been asleep

28.02.2003 10:37

Not bad, but the Labour Party has been in power since 1997 and in that time has got up to some things that even Thatcher and the Tories never got round to. Moreover, past Labour governments were not exactly clean-handed. Indeed their record of servility to US government policy has often been even more extreme than the Tories.
Is he only just starting to notice this?

Steve

The bike remains the same!!

28.02.2003 23:02

The rider of the bike may change from time to time with either a red or blue (now purple) jacket on but the bike remains the same and the speed constant.The sad thing is we all work in the bike factory to some extent or other.

M Lacey
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