Iraq
- CND believes that the attack on Iraq was totally unjustified and was in contravention
of international law.
- CND believes that the US and UK should have no forces in Iraq. The proper
authority to aid Iraq’s recovery and move to a fully functioning democracy is the UN
and its agencies.
- There was never any credible evidence of either the presence of nuclear weapons in
Iraq, nor the intention to use any.
- Before the invasion there was no known or proven link between Iraq and al Qa’ida.
Iraq was a secular state with no fundamentalist links. Now religious divisions
dominate politics and fundamentalists have increasing influence.
- Iraq has only ever used chemical weapons with the knowledge and support or tacit
approval of the West i.e. against Iran from 1982-1988 in the Iran/Iraq war and, most
infamously, against its own Kurdish population when the two main Kurdish parties
were recruited by Iran to support its war effort against Iraq. CND denounced these
attacks whilst Western Governments continued to give Iraq support.
- US interests in Iraq are not about democracy but about having a government in place
which is favourable to its long term oil supply and globalisation projects. Control in
the Middle East is crucial to this.
- CND opposes all nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, whoever owns
them.
- Long term peace and stability will only come about through progressive international
disarmament on the part of all the nuclear powers. CND welcomes President
Obama’s recent agreement with Russia on the reduction of nuclear warheads and his
positive stance on multi-lateral nuclear disarmament.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
ARROW: Website: www.justicenotvengeance.org
LABOUR AGAINST THE WAR: PO Box 2378, London E5 9QU Tel: 020 8985
6597 E-mail: latw@gn.apc.org
