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'Iraq was wrong' - Milliband...

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 11:13 am
by max_tranmere
Ed has just informed us that it was wrong to go to war. Interesting. Shame that wasnt the majority view in the Labour Party when the decision was being made.

Re: 'Iraq was wrong' - Milliband...

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 11:28 am
by justincyder
And it's only wrong now because its become fashionable to say so. Were it still right I daresay everyone would be clamouring there input

Re: 'Iraq was wrong' - Milliband...

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 12:47 pm
by RoddersUK
I was interested to read the other day that Labour has had 18 leaders. 4 won a General Election. The Union puppet Milliband junior won't be the 5th, and that's for sure.


RoddersUk

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 1:13 pm
by David Johnson
As an ex-public sector worker like yourself, on one of those totally unaffordable, gold-plated pensions that Cameron and the Cleggster are always on about, I would have thought you would have been in favour of Milliband.

Cheers
D

Re: 'Iraq was wrong' - Milliband...

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 1:58 pm
by Bob Singleton
max_tranmere wrote:

> Ed has just informed us that it was wrong to go to war.
> Interesting. Shame that wasnt the majority view in the Labour
> Party when the decision was being made.


The fact is Max, that whilst many people in the country were against the war, both the then leaders of the Labour and Conservative parties (along with their respective cabinets) were in favour of supporting the US led invasion of Iraq, even without full UN support. Things wouldn't have been any different under the Tories. David Cameron hasn't exactly been vociferous against the invasion of Iraq either!


Re: 'Iraq was wrong' - Milliband...

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 3:25 pm
by max_tranmere
His brother David is being shown on all the teatime news programmes being rather annoyed at Harriet Harman clapping what Ed Miliband says. "You voted for it so why are you clapping" is what David says to Harriet. So even the Mili's have differnt views on the war, David looks back thinking it was right and Ed not.

In my opinion most Labour and Tory MP's who voted for it were probably privately against it, but 'going against the grain' and taking the opposite view to what their party leader and many colleagues believed in would have harmed their careers - and that is the thing politicians care about the most.

Re: RoddersUk

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 4:49 pm
by RoddersUK
Any one who thinks a Service Pension for the non commissioned ranks is gold plated must be as stupid as you.


Re: 'Iraq was wrong' - Milliband...

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 4:52 pm
by RoddersUK
Probably because he thought it was a good idea, as I did and still do.


Re: 'Iraq was wrong' - Milliband...

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 4:55 pm
by RoddersUK
So what?
It's happened. Get the fuck over it.


Re: 'Iraq was wrong' - Milliband...

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 1:16 am
by johnsmith09
@RodderUK: How the fuck can you get over something like Iraq when our troops are still occupying the country?