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Mark Urban blames Anti War protesters for Iraq War

Divide & Rule | 27.04.2009 12:10 | Iraq

Mark Urban is the Diplomatic Editor of the BBC's Newsnight programme. Urban was formerly defence correspondent at the Independent. He served in the British Army, for nine months as a regular officer and four years in the Territorials. He has hosted a series of virtual reality war games on the BBC, Time Commanders, re-enacting key battles.

Mark Urban wrote: "While many (UK opponents of the Iraq war) may feel vindicated by what subsequently happened, it was their hand wringing and magnification of every set back or mis-step that played a key role in undermining the political will to achieve more in southern Iraq... Once British troops were engaged, the success of their mission should have become an issue of broad national consensus."

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/markurban/2009/04/the_price_of_division.html

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Urban the Wanker

27.04.2009 19:37

Not only this comment but many other comments on Iraq and Afghanistan were just as appauling! He isas bad as that Simpson tosser!

Saddam Hussain

Old Urban history

27.04.2009 19:53

I remember him sniffing around the London Support Group for the Viraj Mendis Defence Campaign in the 1980s when he was a trainee journalist, looking for a story about something or other. Was very interested in what we were doing but never produced anything.

long memory

more accurate to say

28.04.2009 09:23

Mark Urban is actually a lead player at chatham house who occassionally ghosts as a journalist (chatham house is the think tank of the british round table group and a leading internationalist hotbed of reactionary manipulation).

jackslucid