This is an unpublished letter to The Guardian on 14th July in response to Jackie Ashley's column, `Speak up, speak out' on the Parliamentary response to the London bombings of 7th July.
Dear Editor,
Jackie Ashley is quite right in her comments in today's Guardian about the importance of open debate about the London bombings in Parliament. If the issues are not openly debated there Parliament does just become a rubber-stamp for the Government.
But why does she think the Blairites are trying to suppress it (for instance, by the disgraceful slandering of George Galloway)? They are desperate to suppress the clear and evident link between Blair's slavish support for George W.Bush's criminal foreign policy - especially in the Middle East - and the criminal attacks on Londoners. The Guardian performs a vital service for democracy when it publishes articles such as Seumas Milne's in today's (Thursday's) issue which point out the facts.
Parliament failed us when the original invasion of Iraq was debated. Millions of us marched against that disaster but our voices were little represented in Parliament. Now our MPs are making the same mistake. Millions of us know not only that the bombers were criminals who were personally responsible for their crimes, but that also Goverment policy in the Middle East is making us targets for such people.
MPs must stand up to the disgraceful personal abuse of their critics by Blair and his coterie of docile, useless MPs and speak up for their constituents against our continuing involvement in American war crimes in Iraq.
Yours faithfully,
Grouchy.
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