...(also via Norm) is this link to an Observer article on Member of Parliament Ann Clwyd (to be blunt, if you don't know who she is, then you have absolutely no business discussing the humanitarian arguments re the Iraqi liberation). It would seem that she has a better working relationship with Tony Blair's government these days - which is, of course, as it should be. MP Clwyd was unbending, not to say graphic, about why she supported toppling Hussein: between that and her disinclination to banish the neocons to the depths of Hell, she's been burning some bridges with her fellow Leftists.
They should do something to rectify that, by the way. Yes, them, not her. I don't agree with everything she believes in - to put it mildly - but she possesses something that I think the antiwar movement generally assumes (extremely erroneously) to have as a matter of course: a legitimate claim to the moral high ground. The advantages of this should be obvious...
Anyway, it's late, I'm rambling and this post took way too long to write - so read the article and make up your own minds, folks.
A lady of principle; not of ideology.
Posted by: Dave's not here | December 30, 2003 at 05:22 PM