"I Believed In This War.. I Was So Wrong"

by Tony Parsons

STOP me if I am missing something here, but if former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic can end up on trial for war crimes committed under his leadership, then why can't Tony Blair?

Former Yugoslav President Milosevic didn't personally murder anyone. He didn't actually rape anyone. And he didn't soil his suit by torturing anyone in a stinking prison cell.

And yet Milosevic stands accused of crimes against humanity. He faces life imprisonment for unspeakable atrocities in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo that happened when he was many miles away.

But Milosevic was dragged to The Hague because he was the man at the top, and the indisputable architect of a mountain of misery.

"He (Milosevic) controlled events," the judges at The Hague were told when his trial began, "because he controlled the people who constituted the bodies that did evil."

Which is a perfect definition of Tony Blair's moral responsibility for everything that has been done in this country's name in Iraq. www.mirror.co.uk

Amnesty condemns UK for Iraqi deaths
By Kate Kelland

LONDON (Reuters) - Amnesty International has accused the British government of undermining the rule of law in Iraq by failing properly to investigate suspected unlawful killings of Iraqi civilians by UK soldiers.

In a report released on Tuesday amid a storm of accusations about the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by both American and British forces, Amnesty said UK troops had breached international human rights standards by killing civilians who appeared to pose no threat.

"The British Army's response to suspected unlawful killing of civilians has undermined, rather than upheld, the rule of law," it said in the report. www.mirror.co.uk