Mother's Plea to Pull Out of Iraq

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The mother of a soldier killed in Basra today launched an appeal for all British troops be brought home from Iraq by Christmas.Private Gordon Gentle, 19, from Pollok, Glasgow, was serving with the Royal Highland Fusiliers when he was killed in a roadside blast on June 28.

His mother, Rose, hopes hundreds of people will march through Pollok this month to demand the return of soldiers from Iraq by 25 December.
Mrs Gentle said: “My son should never have been sent to Iraq in the first place. Tony Blair lied to justify an illegal invasion.“He has the blood of Gordon and thousands of others on his hands. I don’t want another mother to go through my heartbreak.”

Backing her plans for a rally in Pollok on Saturday 30 October, Scottish Socialist leader Tommy Sheridan said: “Tony Blair talks of a blood price being paid in Iraq. “But it’s not his blood or his family who paid the price. It’s working class boys from schemes like Pollok who end up losing their lives and limbs for Bush’s oil war.

“Iraq was illegally invaded and is now illegally occupied. I am backing Rose Gentle’s call to bring home all the troops by Christmas.”
Mrs Gentle met Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott in August after travelling to Downing Street to deliver a letter protesting against the war to Tony Blair.However just minutes into the meeting Mrs Gentle stormed out, accusing Mr Prescott of “talking rubbish”.


http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3618041

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1. You go girl...they think they are rich and can do anything to anybody!