41 Labor MPs to challenge Bush

[rooboy]

Forty-one Labor MPs, including 11 members of Simon Crean's front bench, have signed a protest letter to present to US President George Bush today, criticising his conduct of the Iraq war.

Signatories to the letter include such powerful ALP figures as the shadow treasurer, Mark Latham, and Labor's Senate leader, John Faulkner.

The letter, drafted after Mr Crean's call for ALP members to show respect to Mr Bush, says the war was conducted on the basis of a "clear and present danger" in Iraq that did not exist.

It was drafted by Sydney Labor MP Tanya Plibersek, who plans to hand it to Mr Bush after his historic address to Federal Parliament this morning. Mr Bush was to due to fly into Canberra late last night after a stopover in Bali on his way from the APEC meeting in Bangkok.

The letter is highly critical of Mr Bush for not allowing United Nations weapons inspectors more time to disarm Iraq peacefully.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/22/1066631506492.html

[Spazito]

1. Good for them!

I hope more and more letters of protest from politicians around the world land up in Bush's lap!

[ixion]

2. even the Brits are beginning to realize what a sham the Bush cabal is

now if we could only get the sheeple in this country to realize it. :eyes:

[M155Y_A1CH]

6. Not Brits

The article refers to Australian MPs.

[maxpower]

3. Good

Now who is going to read it for him?

[agates]

4. Duplicitous, conniving, and lying President of the United States

Also from the article

<snip>

Labor MP Harry Quick, a signatory to the letter, addressed the crowd and said he had been told to be respectful to Mr Bush when he addressed Parliament. "Why should we respect this duplicitous, conniving, and lying President of the United States?" he said. "When I was growing up as a young man, I was taught respect had to be earned. George Bush will never be shown respect by the countless Australians who realise our government entered a war which was based on a deliberate lie." <snip>

Good quote!

[tlcandie]

5. He will never read it and he doesn't care...

And how will they make it past his minders?

[donotpassgo]

7. Silly Aussie's don't get that WAR IS PEACE

and 2 + 2=5 and we've always been at war with Eastasia

[goforit]

8. Formal dissent!!!................What's the next step?

How about physical arrest.

[tom_paine]

9. Holy Neville Chaimberlain, Batman!

Dictators and other unelected Thugs rarely respect the written word. Generally speaking, and I think Bunnypants is no different, the only thing they respect is force of all types.

In other words, the question they are continaully asking their victims is, "What're you going to do to stop me?"