The remains of mothers with unborn babies and bodies
of toddlers still clutching toys bear pitiless
testimony to the murderous regime of Saddam Hussein.
Many had been shot in the back of the head, their
bodies bulldozed into makeshift graves. In a second
grave were the bodies of their husbands and fathers,
massacred with machine guns. To end this evil was the
reason we went to war. When the world found out about
atrocities the Nazis committed in the Holocaust, it
said: Never again.But Saddam was as evil as Hitler. We
could not stand by and do nothing. It is pointless
politicians arguing about dodgy dossiers or United
Nations resolutions. The truth is that Saddam was a
monster determined to be the first Arab nuclear ruler
and the world is better with him in prison, not in
power. Lib-Dem leader Charles Kennedy accuses Tony
Blair of leading us into “an illegal war.” Why doesn’t
he talk about the illegal acts committed by Saddam
over 24 years?

The poison gas used to murder thousands of Kurds and
Iranians. The invasion of Kuwait in 1990 which needed
half a million American and British troops to reverse.
His attempt to assassinate former President George H.
Bush (Dubya’s dad) in 1993. The way he harboured one
of the bombers who attacked the World Trade Center
that year. Has Kennedy forgotten how Saddam never told
the truth about weapons of mass destruction and
ejected U.N. weapons inspectors? Or that the need to
keep a huge U.S. military presence in the Middle East
was the reason given by Osama Bin Laden in 1998 for
his declaration of holy war on America? America and
Britain could not have gone to war for a more valid
and honourable cause than the destruction of Saddam’s
evil regime.