Anyone who was actually part of the movement to systematically deceive the public in the lead-up to the war should've been drummed out of public life, yes, and it's to the great shame of both the US and the UK that this did not happen
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IDD64 and
You do realise that it was a labour government who took uk into the American war against saddam? Incidentally, the baroness was a Lib Dem MP at that time & they voted against getting involved.
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The House of Lords, to my knowledge, did not vote on the resolution to invade Iraq Nicholson was an MEP at the time, and the European Parliament debated three resolutions, one strongly against the war, one strongly for it and one fence-sitting, all of which she failed to vote in
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RunchieC and
Since those resolutions were nonbinding and symbolic, that doesn't really matter What matters is she spent years making the "humanitarian" case for an invasion and passed a dossier of info about WMDs to Hans Blixhttps://www.politico.eu/article/mep-hands-blix-dossier-on-sites-linked-to-weapons-development/ …
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IDD64 and
Saddam was committing genocide so not unreasonable to suggest he should be stopped (unlike US who continued to support him despite gassing his own citizens). Using your logic, we should have left milosevic to deal with those unruly Bosnians & kosovans.
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The shocking thing to me is finding out to what degree TERF Twitter has moved from denial to acceptance on the Iraq War now that they've decided Emma Nicholson is a shero People making pro-invasion arguments I thought I'd never see again
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Replying to @maxschneider1 @RunchieC and
Ah, yes, invading Iraq was... feminist, actually
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Replying to @arthur_affect @maxschneider1 and
Don’t you think singling out Nicholson as a warmonger given that all the western leaders who took countries into Iraq war & majority of politicians who voted to support war were male is just, I don’t know, a bit misogynistic?
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Replying to @RunchieC @maxschneider1 and
Are any of them being failed as a feminist hero and great philanthropist right now while they're leading a campaign to censor sex ed curricula amid a moral panic against queer and trans people?
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If Tony Blair comes out and does anything and people are going around talking up what a great guy Tony Blair is, point it out and I'll gladly talk about what a piece of shit he is But he's not relevant right now and Nicholson is
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