Bishop asks forgiveness over Iraq

Finally, someone who advocated the war shows some principle and admits it was baseless and wrong. And he's an Anglican Bishop, who would've thought it :)

He actually wrote the whole thing up and had it published in the Age and it's one of the most coherent, articulate and damning demolitions of the whole war debacle to see the light of day. It's been picked up by Sojourners in the US so this message doesn't appear to have been buried.

As the only Anglican bishop to have publicly endorsed the Australian government's case for war, I now concede that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction.... There is no alternative to concluding that the March 2003 invasion was neither just nor necessary.... I continue to seek God's forgiveness for my complicity in creating a world in which this sort of action was ever considered by anyone to be necessary.
- Dr. Tom Frame, Anglican Bishop to the Australian Defence Force.

And it goes on:

First, there is a continuing need of better systems for arbitrating international disputes. When the "coalition of the willing" invaded Iraq, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan asked:

"If we are going to make preventive action, or war, part of our response to these new threats, what are the rules? Who decides? Under what circumstances? Did what happened in Iraq constitute an exception? A precedent others can exploit? What are the rules?"

These are good questions that cannot go unanswered.

If you haven't managed to get clear in your head the to's and fro's of the war, or find it hard to articulate why you think it's wrong I strongly recommend this article.

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