Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Will we wash our hands of it?

According to an ICM poll for the Guardian, 45% of the public want immediate withdrawal of troops for Iraq, and 61% want them "home by Christmas". At the same time, a poll by Communicate Research for the Independent says that 62% want withdrawal "as soon as possible" whilst 72% simultaneously, and bizarrely, acknowledge that the country will descend into civil war when we leave.

For some reason I keep hearing Matthew 27:24 in my head now.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sadly it is no longer a case of washing of hands, as we can no longer return to the status quo ante. Iraq has provided a rallying point for all anti western radical moslems to crowd around. The situation is very similar to the German propping up of the Vichy French government, whilst the Communists and Gaullists were fighting for control of France at the same time as trying to kick out the invader. The current Iraqi government will either have to fight for its survival or succumb to sectarianism. The coalition is now largely just a target and an irrelevance. This foreign policy disaster should never have taken place, and those who forced it through should be held accountable. Certainly after this debacle the Royal perogative vested in the office of the PM should be properly devolved to Parliament.

Benedict White said...

Go on Dizzy, Save me looking it up What is in Mathew 27:24.

While I am at it, try reading Mathew 5:33 before you are asked to swear on the Bible.

dizzy said...

"When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but [that] rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed [his] hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye [to it]."

Anonymous said...

The clue was in Dizzy's header
Ezekiel 22.25 for Blair;-)

Stan Bull said...

Gordon B. will lead the pull-out. Gordo’s heart has never been with the Iraq adventure (to his credit). He has invested little or no support or political capital in this bloody enterprise. And it will be a great pleasure for him to administer a sharp slap to the Bliarite tendency. With 119 British servicemen dead so far and 4.4 billion of UK taxpayers money spent on Iraq so far, Brown will be on to a political winner....