A Tangled Web

THE BUCK STOPS HERE.



The audio-diary of Sgt Steve Roberts, shot dead in March during an attack by Iraqi dissidents, refers to supplies to soldiers "a joke". His widow has courageously made the content of her late husbands diary public, and the furore has caused some Ministerial hearts to flutter. Calls for Hoon the goon to resign are pointless. It is his boss, Tony Blair, who sent British soldiers to Iraq without ensuring that they had what they needed to defend themselves in the conflict of war. It is his boss, Tony Blair, who should now resign from office. Soldiers die, wives become widows, children lose their father yet all the time the grinning Blair poses as the great war leader. What an absolute disgrace! Samantha Roberts has shamed this awful Government, and regardless of ones political colours, asking a soldier to put himself on the front-line, but then deny him the necessary supplies, is a little more than "the odd glitch or shortcoming in our processes" as Defence Minister Ivor Caplin puts it.