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Published Date: 19 April 2009
WELCOME to Scotland on Sunday's online feature, Question of the Week.
Each week we ask the readers of scotlandonsunday.com for their views on a burning issue from the past seven days.

The best responses may be reproduced on the Online Forum page in Sunday's print edition of the newspaper on May 3rd.

If you wish to appear in Scotland on Sunday, then, along with your response, please leave a first name and surname, as well as your location - eg Tom Smith, Edinburgh. We welcome all comments.

The question this week is...

Have British troops left Iraq a better place?



The full article contains 104 words and appears in Scotland On Sunday newspaper.
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1

Mark Mackenzie,

Glasgow 01/05/2009 21:07:56
The illegal occupation of Iraq by British forces was based on a lie by Tony Blair and has been an unmitigated disaster from beginning to end.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians, as well as hundreds of military personnel, have died in vain. The failure to train Iraqi forces or to develop any kind of modern infrastructure or civil society is demonsrated by the fact that it is the US, not the Iraqis, who will be taking over now.

Hang your head in shame, Tony Blair.
2

irene soames,

02/05/2009 08:39:01
I can’t speak for any improvement or deterioration of conditions in Iraq, but the sending of British troops has certainly not left the world as a whole a better place. The whole affair was a powerful recruiting sergeant for extremism and terrorism across the globe. Whether the withdrawal of Britons from Basra and their replacement by hated Amercian troops has a beneficial impact, we shall wait and see.

 

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