Euston Manifesto: Humanitarian Intervention post-Iraq (2/8)

On Monday 30th April, a panel of leading Ministers, MPs, and thinkers
came together in the Houses of Parliament to discuss the future of
humanitarian intervention, after the conflict in Iraq.

Discussion topics included the recent crisis in both Darfur and also
Somalia, the failure of the Left to deal with the arguments
surrounding the promotion of democracy and international law, and the
future for intervention.

The speakers were: -

Rt. Hon. Hilary Benn MP, the Secretary of State for International
Development and a candidate for the Labour party deputy leadership.

Prof. Brian Brivati, Professor of Contemporary History and Human
Rights at Kingston University.

Nick Cohen, journalist for the Observer and New Statesman, and author
of 'What's Left? How Liberals lost their way'.

Brendan Cox, Director of CrisisAction and co-organiser of Day for Darfur.

Gary Kent, Director of Labour Friends of Iraq.

Pat McFadden MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Cabinet Office

The meeting was chaired by:

Karen Pollock, Chief Executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust.

This is video 2/8, all videos are available from youtube.com/eustonmanifesto

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[ThePissedOffAtheist]

Kind of like breaking a person's window and claiming it would be "hypocritical" of you to pay for replacing the window because you're the one who broke it. That makes absolutely no sense! If we helped bring Saddam to power and armed and aided him in the past that, gives us a GREATER moral responsibility to topple him, not a lesser one.

[kmarkymark]

Saddam would have gave up power for sanctuary for egypt, but US rejected this because they didn't invade Iraq to remove This Rogue and join him with other monsters that we've supported. They invaded iraq because Iraq has value in itself.

[MajesticIndolence]

The moral obligation to destroy a monstrous genocidaire like Saddam Hussein, TrystanCJ, is not cancelled by a history of support--and just for your information, Trystan, the US was far from Hussein's major supplier of arms.

[TrystanCJ]

The fascist regime that erm, the US supported . . .

Erm, until Saddam went for Kuwait . . .

. . . and erm, then it became officially "fascist".

Good luck in your support of right-wing pro-war government that lies in bed with Saudi Arabia and other erm, FASCIST states, chaps!