Harry Barnes quits anti-war movement

From Gallery News:

Veteran left-winger Harry Barnes has quit the anti-Iraq War movement and is urging the group to support the Iraqi labour movement.

Mr Barnes, who helped launch Labour Against the War, has quit because, he says, the group has not adopted a creditable analysis of the changed position and "adopts an approach which aids terrorist, religious extremist and anti-democratic forces in the Middle East".

The North East Derbyshire MP opposed the war in every Commons vote but says that the group, which includes MPs Alice Mahon, Jeremy Corbyn MP and Alan Simpson, have failed to understand the new realities of Iraq.
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Mr Barnes has helped form a new group, Labour Friends of Iraq, with Ann Clwyd... to unite those who took different positions on the war.

Mr Barnes said, "None of us who opposed the war likes how we got here but we must face the facts if we are to provide solidarity to Iraqi democrats in their hour of utmost need. My plain message to those on the left who abuse statistics and rubbish Iraqi democracy because they cannot stand the idea that Tony Blair or George Bush get some sort of credibility from them is to get real and do so quickly."

See also here. (Thanks: GC.)