http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/washington-hid-damaging-vietnam-finding/2005/10/31/1130720481924.html

I wonder if the outcome will be the same this time.......

Originally posted by wolfman
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/washington-hid-damaging-vietnam-finding/2005/10/31/1130720481924.html

I wonder if the outcome will be the same this time.......

An ignominious retreat you mean ? I would think so, - the only way out is out. Iraq can never be a 'western' style democracy; it was never really a country, - just a collection of significantly different peoples hemmed in together within a boundary arbitarily drawn by the British.

Many Iraqis still hate us for that, never mind what we've done to them in the last couple of years.

I dont find this at all surprising. I recently met a really super person who's child was killed in the Lockerbie disaster and has been trying ever since to establish various key facts.

Not surprisingly the Lockerbie campaigners are unable to elicit the information they require although I gather they have reason to believe it is available but the UK and US Governments will not release such material to them or indeed anyone.

So much for the Freedom of Information Act.

Turning to the main issue in hand, I think it is highly commendable that these historians blew the whistle, a truly courageous decision which will hopefully prevent further wanton bloodshed simply for the self-aggrandisement of Blair, Bush, weapon manufacturers and a few other senior political figures.