The british people, the anti-war crowd and the Blair

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I do think that the anti-war movement is picking up steam in England.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/story/0,12809,1438606,00.html



No escape from the war

Andrew Murray
Wednesday March 16, 2005
The Guardian

The front benches of both main parties would like to fight the forthcoming election on the Basil Fawlty principle of "don't mention the war". They will not be so lucky. The invasion and occupation of Iraq - and the British public's sustained opposition to it - continues to cast a long shadow over British politics. Some are so anxious to "draw a line and move on" that they simply court ridicule. A correspondent to this paper from South Shields called for an end to "carping" about the "Iraq misadventure". Carping? Misadventure? The Iraq war is a huge crime which has led to up to 100,000 civilian deaths, the deaths of 1,600 US and British soldiers, the ruination of a country, and the trashing of international law and the authority of the UN.

It also involved, it is now clear, the deception of the British parliament and people, from the threat posed by Saddam Hussein to the content of the attorney general's legal green light for the war. To suggest it is somehow unreasonable or obsessive to dwell on these matters or hold those responsible to account is to negate the essence of democracy. One must hope that if any power were ever to do to South Shields what was done to Falluja, we would do more than carp about it.

There are four reasons why the Iraq war and the issues raised by it - the focus of this Saturday's anti-war march in London - deserve to remain at the top of the political agenda. First, we must bear witness to the fact that on every point, the 2 million people who demonstrated against aggression on February 15 2003 have been shown to be correct, while those making the case for the war have been proved disastrously mistaken at best, reckless liars at worst. Whether it was WMD, the legality of the war or the consequences for Iraq of foreign military occupation, those who marched knew better than our rulers. That is a democratic lesson that bears repetition.

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1. Any damage Blair suffers in the election

will be because of one man, George Bush.

Before the BBC coverage of PMQs they send cameras out onto the street to find out what ordinary folks would ask the PM. About 95% are on Iraq, WMD, and the nature of his relationship with Bush.

The parties are trying to fight the election on Health, Crime, Pensions etc.... but all people want to talk about is the war.