 Benn strongly objected to the " immoral " bombing of Iraq in December 1998 , saying : " Aren 't Arabs terrified ? Aren 't Iraqis terrified ? Don 't Arab and Iraqi women weep when their children die ? Does bombing strengthen their determination ? ... Every Member of Parliament tonight who votes for the government motion will be consciously and deliberately accepting the responsibility for the deaths of innocent people if the war begins , as I fear it will . " 
