Iraqi police record the recovery of 85 bodies in and around Baghdad as the 3rd anniversary of the invasion approaches (al-Jazeera and BBC), meanwhile The Guardian publishes extracts from the memoirs of the British general, Whiteley, who played a leading role in the initial invasion, recording how the US commanders at the time, had a very limited interest in what was to be done in terms of rebuilding and pacifying the country that they had just invaded. When millions marched against the war in 2003, few could have realised, even then the magnitude of the crimes that the invasion would unleash. How the decisions of a bunch of power crazed idealogues in washington backed up by a pipsqueak, wannabee Gladstone in downing street would turn an already economically and militarily crippled nation into a training ground for islamic militants and a pivital force for destabilisation throughout the arabian peninsula and western asia.
The millions who marched in fevruary and march 2003 have not gone away, some are still marching and organising. many, horrified by the slaughter have retreated into a stunned silence, others dissolusioned by the lies and corruption of the warmongers have retreated from activity, but as the third anniversary of the greatest western foriegn policy disaster need to mobilise once more, for the activists who think that all that needs to be done is to march around the streets of London or washington and vicariously chher on the fragmented iraqi resistence from the sidelines the message has to be, as it must be for other former activists, is that the time has come to realise that for us, the main enemy is at home, and that means, rather than tokenistic parades around city centres there must be consistant and unrelenting political pressure brought to bear to turn a passive majority that oppose the war into an active majority prepared to drive the warmongers from office.