On getting back from the Demo i am told by Blair that i must feel guilt and shame for not helping them get rid of the Evil Tyrant that is torturing and murdering his people.

Mmmmmm i think i need to talk to Tony to ask him just when Saddam became this awful man (which he is) Here i will defer to the credible words of John Pilger-

" When I was in Iraq in 1999, I met an assistant hotel

manager whose sardonic sense of western double

standards was a treat.

"Ah, a journalist from Britain!" he said. "Would you

like to see where Mr Douglas Hurd stayed, and Mr David

Melon - (he meant Mellor) - and Mr Tony Newton, and

all the other members of Mrs Thatcher's government...

These gentleman were our friends, our benefactors."

This man has a collection of the Iraqi

English-language newspaper, the Baghdad Observer, from

the "good old days". Saddam Hussein is on the front

page, where he always is. The only change in each

photograph is that he is sitting on his white

presidential couch with a different British government

minister, who is smiling a smile uncannily similar to

that of his murderous host.

There, in yellowing print, is Douglas Hurd twice - on

the couch and on page two, bowing before the tyrant.

And there is the corpulent David Mellor, also a

Foreign Minister, on the same white couch in 1988.

While Mellor, or "Mr Melon" as the assistant manager

preferred, was being entertained by Saddam Hussein,

his host ordered the gassing of 5,000 Kurds in the

town of Halabja. News of this atrocity the Foreign

Office tried to suppress and the US State Department

tried to blame on Iran. "Please give Mr Melon my

greetings," said the assistant manager.

The 1994 Scott Inquiry into Britain's illegal supply

of arms to Saddam Hussein found that deception was

widespread among senior British officials and

diplomats. One of those commended by Sir Richard Scott

for the honesty of his evidence was the former head of

the Iraq Desk in Whitehall, Mark Higson, who described

"a culture of lying" in the Foreign Office.

Nothing has changed under Tony Blair. The Foreign

Office has consistently lied about the inhuman effects

of the American-driven embargo on the Iraqi civilian

population. It has lied about the rise in the number

of cancers in southern Iraq, the "Hiroshima effect" of

depleted uranium, a weapon of mass destruction used by

British and American forces during the Gulf War. It

has lied about the vast amounts of humanitarian goods

denied to Iraq, even though the UN Security Council

has approved them. These include cancer assessment and

treatment, medical equipment, and equipment that would

allow Iraq to clean up its contaminated battlefields.

ON the issue of Iraq, the likeness between Thatcher's

Tories and Blair's New Labour is remarkable. In 2000,

Peter Hain, a Foreign Office minister and a zealous

supporter of the embargo on the civilian population,

blocked a parliamentary request to publish the full

list of the British companies that had helped to

sustain Saddam Hussein in power."

The only things i feel guilt and shame about are the facts that he and his other awful half WILL attack Iraq and cause immense death and suffering. The other is that we have an utter tosser for a President Oh sorry i mean Prime Minister.

For other paintings of a similar discourteous and truthful nature visit "Paintings by Martyn Lacey"