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Manchester remembers the 100 soldiers who died in Afghanistan and ALL those who have died in the 'war on terror'. 
Laying a wreath with Lilly Walker, Military Families Against the War Nahella Ashraf in a message to the vigil in Manchester's peace gardens said: "Our thoughts and sympathies are with the family of all those that have lost their lives in this war that has now gone on longer than the entire Second World War."
"Our thoughts and sympathies are with the family of all those that have lost their lives in this war that has now gone on longer than the entire Second World War." - Nahella Ashraf in a message to the vigil in Manchester's peace gardens. It is clear that those that sent our troops to war have no winning strategy and there seems no obvious end in sight in Helmand where British forces are based, or anywhere else across southern Afghanistan for that matter. The war has not made Afghanistan a better place, in fact President Karzai himself has remarked that there were almost no Taliban in Helmand until the British arrived, and that since their arrival the output of opium poppies has more than doubled along the Helmand River. It is clear from his comments that the occupying forces are part of the problem not the solution. It is important to remember that the attack on September 11th was a crime, not an act of war. We were neither threatened, nor attacked by either Afghanistan or Iraq . Blair took us into Iraq in 2003 at the request of the Americans to give the facade of legitimacy to their illegal invasion. The majority of people in this country want a change of policy. The only thing for Gordon Brown to do now is accept what British people already believe – that Tony Blair was wrong to send our troops to war and that they should be brought home now. Stop the war will continue to campaign to bring our troops home from both Iraq and Afghanistan and justice for the Palestinian people. Without this there can be no peace in the Middle East. |
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