Iraq Invasion (10th Anniversary)

Part of the debate – in the Scottish Parliament at on 19 March 2013.

Alert me about debates like this

Photo of Keith Brown Keith Brown Scottish National Party

If I can make a bit more progress just now, I will see whether I have time left at the end.

There is also an absence of any contrition from the Labour Party today, which I believe is a certain sign that Labour is not fit to be in a position to take such life-and-death decisions.

I return to the point about consistency. I understand from what Johann Lamont said that she would have opposed the second Gulf war if she had voted in London, but she supported it here. She did not support the first Gulf war, even though it was backed by a United Nations mandate and was the result of a country invading another country. She did not support the idea that the decision that was made was about weapons of mass destruction. It is hard to see the logic, or indeed any principle, in those positions. They cannot be reconciled with each other.