Analyst News on Instagram: "President Trump ordered deadly strikes on Iran while sitting comfortably at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida over the weekend. Those who declare war are often far from its cruelties and horrors. Yet their decisions affect thousands of innocent lives and the destiny of nations. Veteran MP Tony Benn gave this impassioned anti-war speech to the British Parliament in 1998 when MPs were voting to bomb Iraq. Denouncing the lust for war, he slammed such warmongering as the "greatest betrayal" of the U.N. Charter, which was established to prevent the horror of WW2 repeating itself. "Don't Arab and Iraqi women weep when their children die? What fools we are to live in a generation where war is just a computer game..." His words are even more important today as Israel and the United States wage a violent and illegal war of choice against Iran."

8,359 likes, 123 comments - analystnews_ on March 2, 2026: "President Trump ordered deadly strikes on Iran while sitting comfortably at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida over the weekend. Those who declare war are often far from its cruelties and horrors. Yet their decisions affect thousands of innocent lives and the destiny of nations. Veteran MP Tony Benn gave this impassioned anti-war speech to the British Parliament in 1998 when MPs were voting to bomb Iraq. Denouncing the lust for war, he slammed such warmongering as the "greatest betrayal" of the U.N. Charter, which was established to prevent the horror of WW2 repeating itself. "Don't Arab and Iraqi women weep when their children die? What fools we are to live in a generation where war is just a computer game..." His words are even more important today as Israel and the United States wage a violent and illegal war of choice against Iran.".

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