Not in our name: Iraq isn’t an excuse to allow people to die

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Not in our name: Iraq isn’t an excuse to allow people to die
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'Over time, references to the trauma of the Iraq war on the Western conscience were used as a cynical tool to sidestep responsibility for doing anything about Syrians being massacred in their hundreds of thousands' Opinion | DrTalAbdulrazaq

I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a brisk day on February 15 2003, just over a month before the United States caused one of the worst global political disasters in modern history by leading an illegal invasion of Iraq.

To most people—and I exclude informed segments of society who interface with or study government from this—living in a democracy means that your voice will be heard. It stands to reason, then, that if everyone’s voice comes together to state an emphatic “no,” one would expect their elected governments to listen.

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