| Letter No 51 by Mike Allott: email | back to directory |
Ten years on, Iraq debate still rages The Iraq war was Labour's war. In the end, our obligations to the transatlantic alliance took precedence over traditional socialist values of pacifism. Dog whistling Iraq to criminalise Blair and discredit New Labour may satisfy embittered deconstructionists. However, it will not turn back the ideological clock. Nor will it win future elections.
----------------------------------------------------- This letter was published as part of sequenced debate (the final letter) concerning Labour's reponsibility for the Iraq war: Letters: Ten years on, Iraq debate still rages This article was published on guardian.co.uk at . A version appeared on p37 of the Main section section of the Guardian on . It was last modified at .
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