Galloway on Iraq: 'a disaster'
Updated on 19 March 2008
Was it worth it? George Galloway gives his verdict on the legacy of the Iraq war, as part of our series of viewpoints from social and political voices.
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"Well, as we survey Iraq five years on, we have to conclude that it's an unmitigated disaster and that everything the anti-war movement said turned out to be right and everything our government's told us and indeed many of the mass media and corporate media outlets told us turned out to be false except where it was a deliberate falsehood.
"Four million Iraqis are now refugees, a million are dead. Thousands of British and American soldiers have lost their lives and their limbs. The political systems in the United Kingdom and in the United States are bankrupt and bereft of credibility amongst their own people.
"And terrorism in which name all of this was done has become a fantastically more dangerous problem for the world rather than less.
"So, we have to say, the political leaders who brought us here have to be held to account. Not just because people should be punished for things that they do wrong but they must be punished to stop other rulers in the future making the same mistakes all over again."
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