I do not seek to justify the brutal killing of children by any side. The fact remains that those children are dying BECAUSE the USA and Britain invaded Iraq.
Yes, you are going to tell me that Saddam killed his own people, bla..bla..bla..The question is where is the justification for invading Iraq ? Why not invade China, North Korea or any other dictatorship ?
International Law, put very simply, has in fact banned the use of force unless it is in self-defence. We now know why Blair went on about "15 minutes". He was trying to justify the invasion of Iraq on the basis of self-defence. There was no 15 minute threat or any other direct threat to the USA or Britain from Sadddam. The invasion was and is therefore illegal.
International Law does not allow countries to unilaterally invade another country simply for "regime change". Those of us with an understanding of ME politics and appreciation of the balance of power within the UN, were fully aware of the fact that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq was simply invaded because Mr Bush and his Neo-Con paymasters wanted to get rid of Saddam (finished off what Bush Senior had begun) and in order to divert attention away from the real threat, Mr Bin Laden.
What the invasion of Iraq has done is to increase the incidence of terrorist acts (again this was predicted by those of us who know the region well) and to totally undermine the UN. Mr Bush and Mr Blair have managed to do this single handedly, and have quite stupidly played into the hands of the real terrorist, Mr Bin Laden, who now has more power and support than ever before.
So we have two religious lunatics (Blair has recently converted to Catholicism and claims to be a devote Christian and Bush has his entire cabinet "say a prayer" before each meeting) against another relgious lunatic - Bin Laden.