Blair's WMD

Britain's PM Tony Blair joined His Master George W. Bush in an illegal and criminal invasion of Iraq because Saddam was supposedly building weapons of mass destruction and helping terrorists. No WMD were found and there are many more 'terrorists' in Iraq now than under the rule of Saddam.

Again together with Bush, he is lambasting North Korea because it tested an atom bomb and Iran because in his distorted view he thinks it is also building the bomb. Neither of those two countries has violated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. North Korea has left the NPT according to its provisions and Iran is not violating it.

And guess what? Blair has just decided to violate the NPT, deciding to build a new generation of nuclear ballistic-missile submarines at a cost of at least £20 billion.

This is a blatant violation of the treaty. Signatories have committed themselves to gradually diminish the number of their nuclear weapons. Cutting the nuclear submarine fleet from four to three and reducing the number of operational nuclear warheads by a fifth to about 160 cannot be called disarmament when the U.K. is also designing more powerful nuclear weapons.

Britain's nuclear defense consists of Trident missiles carried aboard four Vanguard-class nuclear-powered submarines. The missiles are leased from the U.S. at an exorbitant price and London has to ask the U.S. for permission if it wants to use them. Britain owns its 200 atomic bombs but cannot use them without Washington's go-ahead.

The U.S. has around 11,000 nuclear weapons, enough to destroy the whole world many times over. It doesn't need the British ones, and Britain itself cannot used them without U.S. consent.

Perhaps Saddam should raise an army to invade Britain and help rid the world of Britain's WMDs. Of course, he can't and he won't. So all peace-loving people in the world should join together to stop warmongers from building even more powerful nuclear weapons. As European citizens, let's start making Europe free of nuclear weapons. That will set an example, giving us the moral high ground to take on the U.S.