schrieb die Los Angeles Times vor Kurzem und hinterfragte den beabsichtigten Rachefeldzug.Der Observer hat am letzten Wochenende über den Widerstand gegen den Irakangriff in Grossbrittannien und anderen Ländern berichtet.Dieser formiert sich international und ist keineswegs eine Wahlkampfparole von Schröder!
Doves launch last-ditch campaign for Gulf peace
The hawks in Washington have the President's ear - in Europe, calmer voices are speaking out
The former British Chief of Defence Staff, Field Marshal Lord Bramall, said Britain risked being dragged into a 'very, very messy' and lengthy war. 'You don't have licence to attack someone else's country just because you don't like the leadership,' he said. General Sir Michael Rose, the former commander of the SAS, warned that Iraq would be Bush's Vietnam.
Next came the MPs. Tam Dalyell, the Labour MP and Father of the House of Commons, demanded the recall of Parliament before Britain joined any military action. Then came the clerics. Four senior Anglican bishops, including Dr Rowan Williams, the next Archbishop of Canterbury, signed a petition that was handed in at Downing Street declaring that an attack on Iraq would be immoral and illegal. A further eight diocesan bishops all said it would not, at present, constitute 'a just war'. The big union bosses, like Bill Morris of the TGWU, made their opposition clear too.
Overseas Gerhard Schröder, the German Chancellor, launched his re-election campaign by saying that Germany would not be not be 'available for adventures'. Sweden's Foreign Minister, Anna Lindh, agreed. In the Middle East the Saudis said they were not going to help a campaign that King Abdullah of Jordan called 'somewhat ludicrous'. By the end of the week support was coming from the most unexpected of quarters. Hollywood star Woody Harrelson announced that the 'war on terrorism is terrorism'. And even the previously gung-ho Daily Mail was calling the American President 'militarist'.
Labour is braced, too, for clashes with the grass roots during party conference season this autumn. A noisy confrontation with anti-war union leaders at September's TUC conference in Blackpool could be defused by the fact that Blair will address them the day before the anniversary of 11 September: delegates might be in too sombre a mood to make much trouble.
But there will be few such qualms when he returns to Blackpool three weeks later for Labour's own conference, the eve of which will be marked by a massive anti-war rally. Conference votes are not binding, but Blair will not want to be seen facing internal dissent at what may be a crucial time in American preparations
In the New York Times , two of Washington's most respected foreign policy experts at the Brookings Institution, Michael O'Hanlon and Philip Gordon, argued for containment. The New Yorker magazine devoted its lead comment piece to a fervently argued case against war. In the Los Angeles Times , a commentary headlined: 'Weighing a just war, or settling an old score?' opened with the line: 'What the heck, let's bomb Baghdad.
www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,772717,00.html
Doves launch last-ditch campaign for Gulf peace
The hawks in Washington have the President's ear - in Europe, calmer voices are speaking out
The former British Chief of Defence Staff, Field Marshal Lord Bramall, said Britain risked being dragged into a 'very, very messy' and lengthy war. 'You don't have licence to attack someone else's country just because you don't like the leadership,' he said. General Sir Michael Rose, the former commander of the SAS, warned that Iraq would be Bush's Vietnam.
Next came the MPs. Tam Dalyell, the Labour MP and Father of the House of Commons, demanded the recall of Parliament before Britain joined any military action. Then came the clerics. Four senior Anglican bishops, including Dr Rowan Williams, the next Archbishop of Canterbury, signed a petition that was handed in at Downing Street declaring that an attack on Iraq would be immoral and illegal. A further eight diocesan bishops all said it would not, at present, constitute 'a just war'. The big union bosses, like Bill Morris of the TGWU, made their opposition clear too.
Overseas Gerhard Schröder, the German Chancellor, launched his re-election campaign by saying that Germany would not be not be 'available for adventures'. Sweden's Foreign Minister, Anna Lindh, agreed. In the Middle East the Saudis said they were not going to help a campaign that King Abdullah of Jordan called 'somewhat ludicrous'. By the end of the week support was coming from the most unexpected of quarters. Hollywood star Woody Harrelson announced that the 'war on terrorism is terrorism'. And even the previously gung-ho Daily Mail was calling the American President 'militarist'.
Labour is braced, too, for clashes with the grass roots during party conference season this autumn. A noisy confrontation with anti-war union leaders at September's TUC conference in Blackpool could be defused by the fact that Blair will address them the day before the anniversary of 11 September: delegates might be in too sombre a mood to make much trouble.
But there will be few such qualms when he returns to Blackpool three weeks later for Labour's own conference, the eve of which will be marked by a massive anti-war rally. Conference votes are not binding, but Blair will not want to be seen facing internal dissent at what may be a crucial time in American preparations
In the New York Times , two of Washington's most respected foreign policy experts at the Brookings Institution, Michael O'Hanlon and Philip Gordon, argued for containment. The New Yorker magazine devoted its lead comment piece to a fervently argued case against war. In the Los Angeles Times , a commentary headlined: 'Weighing a just war, or settling an old score?' opened with the line: 'What the heck, let's bomb Baghdad.
www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,772717,00.html
