[Media-watch] FW: Hutton Whitewash - Protest Rally

[David Miller]

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From: "Edinburgh Stop the War Coalition" <edinburghstw at blueyonder.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:16:26 -0000
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Subject: Hutton Whitewash - Protest Rally


Support the Protest Rally

Saturday, 31st January, 10.30am

BBC Scotland, Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow

Supported by Glasgow Southside Against War and Globalise Resistance
(Scotland). 

 





70% of the population Agree with Stop the War Coalition

 

Today¹s opinion poll by NOP reveals that yet again The Stop The War
Coalition is the leading voice of public opinion when it comes to the
ongoing conflict in Iraq.

 

When asked the question Do you think there should now be a full independent
into the reasons given by the Government for the war in Iraq an unequivocal
70% answered YES . 

 

The Stop The War Coalition today again calls on Tony Blair and his
Government to launch a full and independent inquiry into the reasons he took
us into this illegal war.

 

The so-called evidence that Tony Blair used to take this country into war
has unravelled since George Bush proclaimed the end of hostilities.
Yesterday at the first of a number of Senate hearings David Kay, the recent
head of the Iraq Survey group said that there should be an investigation
into why we went to war on intelligence that was so flawed.

 

Last month, George Bush¹s first Treasury Secretary, Paul O¹Neil let the cat
out of the bag, when he revealed that the president of the USA was trying to
construct a reason for invading Iraq weeks into his term of office.

 

Whatever the truth about Dr. David Kelly and what he did or didn¹t say to a
BBC Correspondent, the fact remains that the 45 minute claim that Saddam
could launch biological and chemical weapons was false, based on one source,
who has now retracted what he said.

 

Months after the conflict was said to be over WMD¹s still have not been
found. Months after the conflict was said to be over thousands of Iraqi¹s
have died, hundreds of troops have perished illegally occupying a foreign
land. And months after the conflict was said to be over democracy and
freedom of choice for the Iraqi people still is as far away as it was when
the war began. 

 

The time has come for Tony Blair to put before the British people, through a
full independent inquiry, the evidence that he claims was overwhelming.
Until he does, the British people will continue to treat anything he says
with the contempt it deserves.





   


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