Given that killing is always wrong, it is amazing the complex route that people must take to realise the obvious about Iraq. That people signed up for war, signed up to kill people, and then find that really its not very nice and is maybe wrong is the most remarkable feature of human beings. Based on imagination only we will risk our lives and worse the lives of others. Something everyone should remember the words of writer Dinah Craik: "believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see". I find that is about the correct balance... (of course you heard that from her so you shouldn't believe it until you've seen it for yourself!!)
New Winter Soldier gathering in Washington (USA):
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3444835.ece
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