Iraqi war with oil escalation and blood money

THE EDITOR: As regards the threat to invade Iraq, the more I listen to Bush, Blair, Powell, Straw and the rest of the gang, the more I am reminded of the Nazi German/Fascist Italian assault on the rest of Europe circa 1939.

The big difference here is that a lot of the European countries could to some extent defend themselves. The Iraqis are almost defenceless as they possess a lot of outdated weaponry. The American/British way (invade no matter what) is the way of the cowardly jackal attacking the wounded prey.

If a war does take place and thousands of Iraqis are massacred in the process, who is going to summon Bush, Blair and others before the International Criminal Court (ICC) to be tried as war criminals just as the Nazis were tried at Nuremberg and then executed. It is for this reason that I consider the International Criminal Court an utter and complete waste of time and an affront to International Law. Just suppose that our Government decided to join the Bush/Blair coalition and send members of our Regiment to Baghdad, and just imagine that a member of our regiment in company with an American soldier, whether by inadvertence or not, shot and killed a few Iraqi children. Our soldier could be brought before the ICC and if convicted spend a long, long time in prison. The American soldier is immune from prosecution by the ICC Prosecutors. He goes scot free. If this isn’t farcical, ludicrous and hypocritical then I don’t know what is.

It is this kind of two faced American (and now British) approach to world affairs that has spawned such a widespread opposition to the invasion of Iraq, with the exception of Trinidad and Tobago, where we are too preoccupied with playing mas and playing the ass to give a damn. Of course, if there is a war then the price of oil will escalate but for us that benefit would be nothing short of blood money - the blood of thousands of Iraqis especially the children. But does that bother us? Now, if drug money helps finance our building boom and business expansion, why not blood money? Karma or fate has a way of dealing with such situations.

M  HOTIN St  James