By IRNA
London : Peace campaigners delivered a letter top Prime Minister Gordon Brown Friday to remind him of the biggest-ever anti-war demonstration in London in the build-up to the joint US-UK invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
“We said then that the war would be a disaster – everything that we said then has been proved to be true,” said the letter delivered by the Stop the War Coalition (STWC), referring to some two million people staging a protest in the capital on February 15, 2003.
“The destruction of Iraq continues; its people are still suffering bombings and atrocities, as many as one million have died as a direct result of the occupation, millions have been driven from their homes, the social and economic infrastructure has been shattered,” it said.
The demonstrators included the oldest and youngest from the 2003 anti-Iraq War march, Hetty Bower, now aged 103 and 5-year old Alfie Sedley, who was a foetus in his mother’s womb during the biggest-ever rally.
STWC told Brown that there were still thousands of British troops in Iraq, whose “only role seems to be to give cover to (US President) George Bush and the disastrous US occupation.”
“Bush’s wars are making the world a more dangerous place. The vast majority are against them. It is a disgrace our government continues to participate. We will be protesting on the fifth anniversary of the attack on Iraq,” it said.
Their letter also referred to the growing number of British troops in Afghanistan, which was causing devastation.
“Tens of thousands have died, Oxfam reports four times as many aerial bombing raids there as in Iraq,” it said.