"Welcome home Mr Kember" - a letter by Felicity Arbuthnot
Note: Felicity Arbuthnot has sent the following letter "to every letters editor I can think of"
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The Editor,
The instantly orchestrated attack on Christian Peace Team's Norman Kember and his colleagues, James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden for failing to thank their rescuers, beggars belief.
Just when one thinks this Administration and their hangers on can sink no lower, they effortlessly plunge to new depths.
They would do well to remember that whatever about the Iraqi regime, Iraq was amongst the safest countries on earth for foreigners and overwhelming hospitality was extended by strangers to visitors and travellers.
The illegal US/UK led invasion and the foreign troops illegally squatting in Iraq's buildings and illegally on Iraqi sovereign soil, have brought about the distortion of the whole structure of Iraqi society. Kidnappings, summary executions, beheading were unheard of (as long, of course, the regime itself was not plotted against or targetted.)
The UK and US broke it, so it is up to them to fix it. Mr Kember and his colleagues would have been quite safe in Saddam's Iraq, but no one is in 'liberated' Iraq. At least British soldiers did something more constructive than beating up kids, hoisting liberated Iraqis on fork lifts, generally torturing (in 'isolated incidents' of course) and donning fancy dress and driving round Basra in an allegedly explosive laden car - then demolishing a police station and prison.
Whilst the Christian Peace Team were being held, the Prime Minister was skulking around pretending to be in Basra, when he was in a fortified base at least forty five minutes drive away - helicoptered in, of course. The CPT whether foolhardy or not, went in courage, unprotected, to build bridges, not blow them up.
Unlike the latest to jump on the anti CPT bandwaggon, General Sir 'Mike' Jackson, they have devoted their lives to saving those of others, his has been devoted to ending them. It was Peter Ustinov who said: 'Generals are a case of arrested development.When we were five, we all wanted to be Generals.' General Jackson's petty, childish comments, prove the point perfectly.
Welcome home Mr Kember - or as we say in Ireland : 'One thousand welcomes.'
Yours faithfully,
Felicity Arbuthnot.
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The Editor,
The instantly orchestrated attack on Christian Peace Team's Norman Kember and his colleagues, James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden for failing to thank their rescuers, beggars belief.
Just when one thinks this Administration and their hangers on can sink no lower, they effortlessly plunge to new depths.
They would do well to remember that whatever about the Iraqi regime, Iraq was amongst the safest countries on earth for foreigners and overwhelming hospitality was extended by strangers to visitors and travellers.
The illegal US/UK led invasion and the foreign troops illegally squatting in Iraq's buildings and illegally on Iraqi sovereign soil, have brought about the distortion of the whole structure of Iraqi society. Kidnappings, summary executions, beheading were unheard of (as long, of course, the regime itself was not plotted against or targetted.)
The UK and US broke it, so it is up to them to fix it. Mr Kember and his colleagues would have been quite safe in Saddam's Iraq, but no one is in 'liberated' Iraq. At least British soldiers did something more constructive than beating up kids, hoisting liberated Iraqis on fork lifts, generally torturing (in 'isolated incidents' of course) and donning fancy dress and driving round Basra in an allegedly explosive laden car - then demolishing a police station and prison.
Whilst the Christian Peace Team were being held, the Prime Minister was skulking around pretending to be in Basra, when he was in a fortified base at least forty five minutes drive away - helicoptered in, of course. The CPT whether foolhardy or not, went in courage, unprotected, to build bridges, not blow them up.
Unlike the latest to jump on the anti CPT bandwaggon, General Sir 'Mike' Jackson, they have devoted their lives to saving those of others, his has been devoted to ending them. It was Peter Ustinov who said: 'Generals are a case of arrested development.When we were five, we all wanted to be Generals.' General Jackson's petty, childish comments, prove the point perfectly.
Welcome home Mr Kember - or as we say in Ireland : 'One thousand welcomes.'
Yours faithfully,
Felicity Arbuthnot.
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