Next Saturday Dec. 2nd.
At Brize Norton RAF base 10 miles west of Oxford where troops leave and return from Iraq and Afghanistan, and extraordinary rendition planes have landed with their secret prisoners as well as planes with arms for Israel.
Coaches will leave Oxford Railway Station at 11/11.15am.
Tickets on sale at the Quaker Centre, 43 St. Giles, UHURU wholefoods, the Cowley Rd. and the Inner Bookshop.
Please don't leave getting tickets until the last moment - it may be too late,
TO BOOK a TICKET phone me - Nuala 01865 749459
Chaos in Iraq- Are UK troops part of the problem or part of the solution?
On one day this week some150 ordinary people were killed by car bombs in Bagdhad. Top military officers have admitted that our troops are not succeeding either in Iraq or Afghanistan. They have lost the good will of even those people in both countries, who had welcomed them as liberators.
US troops are in Iraq, based in Bagdhad are concentrating on protecting their own safe enclaves and the oil installations.
The Iraqi government is seen as a puppet regime serving Western interests. Any wonder that a civil war has broken out, between those seen as “collaborators” and the “Waahabi” fundamentalists?
Such fundamentalists had been repressed under the tyrannical regime of Saddam Hussein. But they and terrorists from anti-westerners from other countries were let in in the disorganised chaos that followed our invasion.
Iraq is still paying compensation to Kuwait for its far smaller and less destructive invasion over a decade ago. Surely we should be admitting our mistakes and paying Iraq compensation for the massive destruction we have caused of Iraqi cities, hospitals and schools.
We need to withdraw not only our troops but also those western companies that have been allowed to take over the Iraqi oil industry.
From now on we should we paying not to have troops out there, but to
financially restore Iraq and its government to the health, wealth and affluence it enjoyed before the first invasion.
There is a problem, but we are part of it, not the solution.