Thread by @libcomorg

Millions of people marched against the war, thousands stormed military bases, hundreds of thousands of school children ran out of school and blocked roads.

https://twitter.com/muke10101/status/1487753036499931142

Disbelief at the WMD allegations was so mainstream that former foreign secretary Robin Cook resigned from Tony Blair's cabinet over it. The liberal 'can't go to war without more weapons inspections/UN resolutions' soft anti-war position hinged on it.

mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

What you didn't get much of, and nor did anti-war movement require it, was denying the Halabja massacre, or saying the Kurds deserved it because they were agents of American imperialism (the US supported Saddam at the time of the massacre), or saying Ba'athism was socialist etc.

The mainstream liberal position that Saddam didn't have WMDs and that the US and UK shouldn't go to war without a UN resolution did absolutely fuck all the stop the war. It's this lesson that hasn't been learned, and that some people activlely obfuscate.

Fucking hell I knew I had deja vu. Is there some kind of factory producing these ahistorical arseholes?

https://twitter.com/libcomorg/status/1373387073613352972

There was a general internationalist anti-war vs. legalist/soft anti-war division in the anti-war movement, and a bigger divisions between A to B marches vs. direct action. But none of that relied on insisting US-backed massacres didn't happen.
libcom.org/history/1988-t…

The US was also complicit in Saddam's crushing of the Kurdish and Southern Iraq uprisings in 1990-1 at the end of the first gulf war.

libcom.org/history/1991-t…