Brown’s battle is joined – at home and abroad
March 15th, 2010 Brown is on his own, in a war he inherited
Without any real evidence of weapons of mass destruction and without the benefit of full United Nations’ backing, Tony Blair led us to war with Iraq. Through thick and thin, he stood shoulder to shoulder with George Bush and the neo-conservatives. This was undoubtedly Blair’s war.
Last week, at the Chilcot inquiry, we were meant to find out whether Gordon Brown agreed Iraq was a disastrous war with a still bloody peace. Now we know that he believed: “It was the right war at the right time”. Yet does that answer the question – if he had been Prime Minister at the time, would Iraq have been his war? Now that Brown is Prime Minster, the central question is: would he embroil us in a war with Iran?
We know where his predecessor stands. Blair used the Chilcot inquiry to promote the idea that Western forces may need to invade Iran as it poses just as serious a threat as Saddam Hussein once did. So as not leave us in any doubt of his conviction, Blair mentioned Iran 58 times. Brown didn’t mention the country once. -->-->-->
Grieving mother of soldier killed in Afghanistan confronts Brown over troop equipment
15th March 2010 Gordon Brown has been confronted on television by the furious mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan.
It happened as the Prime Minister began a 'masochism' strategy of facing hostile voters.
Ann Probyn told Mr Brown her son Daniel was killed by a Taliban homemade bomb when he was sent out on a night patrol 'with no equipment'.
She complained about the failure of the Government to provide British troops with equipment that can detect improvised explosive devices.
Mrs Probyn launched the attack on the BBC Politics Show yesterday as Mr Brown faced a panel of disgruntled 'undecided' voters. -->-->-->
Ghana named in 50 new Iraq corruption cases
14 March 2010 Investigators looking into more than 50 new cases of corruption in Iraq that are related to the war ravaged country’s reconstruction have found stolen money lodged in accounts around the world including Ghana.
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Some suspects also tried to conceal foreign bank accounts in Ghana, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Britain, investigators said. In other cases, cash was simply found stacked in home safes. -->-->-->
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