To Artbrooks
" Controversial statements"...come off it
Depleted uranium has been used by the US military in vast quantities in Iraq . Many of these shells have been fired in built up residential areas with devastating effect on the civilian population
...you mention "specific targets"...much of the American fire has indiscriminate ...killing civilians in large numbers.
Take the attempted bombing of Saddam early in the invasion.The US military flattened a residential block claiming that Saddam was in a restaurant ...he wasn't but around 40 Iraqi residents were slaughtered in the attack.
To get back however,to the Euston Manifesto...former leftwingers like Geras , the main writer of the manifesto , supported the invasion of Iraq.They have ended up propping up the most right wing thuggish US government for many many decades.
A realigned left in the UK will have nothing to learn from the Manifesto.Its authors have been used up and spat out by the warmongers...remember them the ones who delivered   Shock and Awe,depleted uranium, cruise missiles , Abu Ghraib , rendition flights, Fallujah, Haditha, white phospherous bombs, Guantanamo and the Patriot Act.Iraqi hospitals are overflowing with the bitter consequences of Bush and Blair's policy on Iraq.
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