Miliband laid the blame squarely on the UN for the eventual invasion. He blamed the "successive failures" of the United Nations to follow through threats to Saddam Hussein and claimed that this had weakened it ahead of the Iraq war. Miliband, in effect, said that Britain upheld international law through invading Iraq. When asked about how the UK was seen by Iraqis Milliband argued British intervention had boosted Britain’s reputation: “We are seen to have played a part in freeing the country from a tyranny that's bitterly remembered.”
Like his colleagues Brown and Blair, it appears Miliband has deluded himself into believing in such lies. The UN directly contributed to the organised misery of millions of Iraqis through sanctions and the death of over 500 000 babies, according to a UNICEF report in 2000. Through a brutal occupation, no fly zones and the corrupt UN oil-for-food programme that restricted Iraqi trade of essential medicine many simple illnesses lead to the eventual death of hundreds of thousands of people. It was both US and British officials who stopped the completion of the weapons inspections programme due to their binge for war. Eventually, resorting to false claims of weapons of mass destruction; ‘colourful’ lies about Iraq’s readiness to launch an attack in 45 minutes; and the bogus dossier in order to justify invasion.
The Labour party war mafia are on a public relations offensive to rewrite the history of the Iraq war using Chilcot. However Britain has a long history of colonisation in the Middle East and whilst the British cabinet may change faces Britain’s true colours have remained the same.
Source: HTB
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