Mark Thomas - London Protest 24th Feb 2007

This is a video of Mark Thomas' speech at the demonstration in London on 24th February 2007. Mark was one of many distinguished guests who spoke to the thousands of people gathered in Trafalgar Square. As ever Mark made his points in a way that only he can. It is a strange day indeed when a comedian has to stand up (no pun intended!) and say what our Government is to corrupt and spineless to say. Thanks Mark.

Tony Blair took us to war on Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction. There were none. 655,000 Iraqis, over 3000 US soldiers and 130 British soldiers have died in that illegal war. Now Blair wants to spend up to £76 billion on new Trident nuclear weapons for a 'defence' policy based on indiscriminate killing of millions.

Stop the War, CND and BMI organised the national demonstration to say no to these insane policies of death and destruction.

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[dragoonthelad]

While I don't entirely agree with Mark Thomas, I can understand him wanting British troops out of Iraq. It's not like terrorists attacked their WTC or anything.

I just wish they wouldn't rip on the U.S. for sending our own troops in. You'd be surprised how many of us are more than happy with our boys being over there.

As for not wanting to be involved in someone else's battle, totally your choice, Britain.

[neoconhitman]

@dragoonthelad don't forget that Iraq had nothing to do with the attack on the Twin Towers. I'm not sure why terrorists attacking the WTC justifies the illegal invasion of Iraq? That is why the majority of the British public disapproved of the Iraq war. Trouble is we've got a government that most people didn't vote for ... yet this is meant to be a democracy!

[dragoonthelad]

@neoconhitman Iraq didn't have anything to do with the WTC, true, but the growing list of offenses they had stacking and stacking were needing immediate action. What did we do? Sanction them? It obviously wasn't working out.

[neoconhitman]

@dragoonthelad if violating UN resolutions is really that important then there is at least one country I could name that has violated more UN resolutions than Iraq could dream off. Basically the US invaded Iraq to control the region and its resources. WMDs and UN Resolutions were just the excuse. Iraq was complying in most cases. The invasion was illegal because their was no UN resolution authorising military action. Regime change is illegal so they had to go with the WMD lies and faked docs.

[barrykaide]

Marky boy showing his true colours then! A bit harsh on Blair though, Iraq was like risk reduction, there COULD have been WMD there, even if one life might have been saved it was worth it...easy to say they weren't there! What id they WERE though, eh? Then what?

[neoconhitman]

It's easy to say they weren't there because they weren't. You could be a murderer so best if we lock you up just in case.

Killing thousands of civilians and your own troops is never going to be worth it to save 1 life.

>> Then what?

Then what? There were no WMDs and the war was based on lies. Can we please stick to reality and not attempt to justify an illegal invasion based on lies and fabricated reports by making up "what if"s.

Its really simple. The war was based in lies.

[bradjointtheory]

Mark Thomas for prime minister

[ukchris64]

I am not a liberal by any means, but by god this man really gets the excitement up, way to go Mark.

[SuperTruth77]

I have a friend who used to go to these events, but stopped in disgust. She said the vast majority of the guys there couldn’t care less about Iraq, but were just out to have sex with as many naïve middle-class girls as possible after filling their heads with fake tales of eco-warrior campaigning around the globe.

They were effectively all as bad as John Worboys, though not technically as it was all consensual. Not that the Police cared what went on at these events in any case…

[toptrichs]

@dragoonthelad are you mental???"young boys" heros"call it what you like ,,,they dont go in the hope too help ,,war kills peolpe ,,end of! thats all thwe way from belfast ,,,,which i admit isnt even close too palistine conflict,,,when an occupier invades your land ,,you defend that land,,dont you??did you think the iraqi peeps wd just say" oh,,go ahead,,its no problem,,sure we,ll let you rape our land",, british troops done it on my people,,did you think we wda just let them invade us?

[MrCliptester]

Then we would have know coz it would have been a british or american goverment that sold em in the first place

[jjccccc]

why isnt he prime minister