Two days later, after looking at far too many buses and trams, and drinking far too much (delicious but deadly) vodka with my very generous and friendly hosts on the last evening, I flew back to the UK on the 21st of March.
I changed flights in Frankfurt & finally caught sight of actual WMDs: At that time, Frankfurt airport was split between civilian and US military. There were masses of cargo aircraft, both US military and plain white painted cargo aircraft coming & going from the military side of the airfield, carrying weapons which would go on to be used in Iraq.
By now everyone was scared of "terrorists" so the airports were empty. There were just two passengers on my flight from Frankfurt to Gatwick.
There was no danger from Middle Eastern terrorists - the only danger was a ridiculously out of control superpower which with its allies would go on to kill over a million people in Iraq.
History is repeating itself. Instead of GW Bush, who was obviously an idiot, the US is now run by an even bigger idiot in Trump. Instead of Blair, who was complicit in war crimes, we have Starmer, who also backs war crimes. Instead of Iraq being accused of having WMDs in Iraq, that's now said about Iran.
The world is going down a ridiculously dangerous path
#iraq #year2003 #iran #war #historyrepeating
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David Hembrow
