Military intervention
There was a time when Quakers were known for plain speaking. ‘War’ is, I think, a fairly common word of the English language that is sufficiently well understood by most people. Here’s a clue: ask any child, what do you call it when the armies of different countries are fighting each other? No prizes for guessing what answer you will get! To claim that the military invasion of Iraq was not a ‘war’ either indicates an astonishing level of denial or else a degree of ‘spin’ that I think would have made even the Blair government blush.

On one thing, however, we can wholeheartedly agree. ‘Organised theft’? You bet your life it was! Just look at the western oil corporations now elbowing their way in to take the ‘concessions’ that have – entirely predictably – come up for grabs. It is worth quoting the words of Alan Greenspan, the respected veteran former chairman of the US Federal Reserve: ‘I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil’.

But then, what did he know?
Peter F Bolwell

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