Fitaloon at MicroShaft

I was struck by one paragraph from this article in the Guardian on the Blair show at the Chilcot Inquiry. It is from Haifa Zangana a novelist and former prisoner of Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime

This inquiry can only be meaningful if it leads to the re-establishment of justice and international law. Without that we can only imagine what the growing orphans will do to Iraq and the world in a few years. A humanitarian worker, quoted in the latest Red Cross report, said: “Once I was called to an explosion site. There I saw a four-year-old boy sitting beside his mother’s body, decapitated by the explosion. He was talking to her, asking her what had happened.” He will be asking the living too. Current UN estimates are of 5 million Iraqi orphans, holding the UK and the US responsible. It is up to the British people who had twice democratically elected Blair and co to make amends to the victims, to hold their government responsible for the damage to Iraq and to the world.

The article is a good review of the Blair Show from a number of viewpoints.

Time for Change.

How Tony Blair fared at the Chilcot inquiry | UK news | guardian.co.uk.