Blair is supporting Bush because he thinks it is the right thing to do. How daringly criminal of him! Oh, he simply MUST be a lapdog of Bush now, just because he happens to agree with him! Why did I not see it before?
It's a contemptuously bad piece of analysis to say that. I don't remember anyone ever saying that Churchill was a clone of Roosevelt.
In any case, Tex, this won't be a unilateral war; now the French think a weapons inspection deadline is a good idea this is turning into far more the sort of thing it should be- the enforcing of UN declarations made some time ago that have been flouted for too long, rather than just one warmonger's senseless assault on a country he dislikes.
The US sure as hell isn't getting access to Iraqi oil and the intention here is to prevent terrorist atrocities; just about every study we have says that leaving Iraq is more dangerous than any other option.
Iraq should submit to legally made UN Resolutions now or it will get what it deserves.
In any case, Tex, this won't be a unilateral war; now the French think a weapons inspection deadline is a good idea this is turning into far more the sort of thing it should be- the enforcing of UN declarations made some time ago that have been flouted for too long, rather than just one warmonger's senseless assault on a country he dislikes.
Well, no, Blair would not say yes to everrything Bush says and the UK and US have already had several serious disagreements on how to handle the Iraq issue; all they really agree on is that something must be done. For the UK, there is no question of unilateral action; but many US hawks still think solo is the way to go; I am almost certain that the US administration will, and has been, seeing sense on this issue and will do no such thing as stupid as going in alone.
I think you will find international support improving soon, Mah. The French want the deadline, the Russians are ok so long as their (extremely large) credit bill with Iraq is guaranteed, and if all those come over the Chinese will probably abstain.
I will remind you, yet again, that UN resolutions state that Iraq must be, if necessary, forcibly stopped from doing what it is doing. This is not just the US; it was agreed by the globsl body responsbile for this very sort of thing.
If you think the US is the crazy country and Bush the crazy man that you say they are, they would also be targetting North Korea and the like. As it is, the reason Iraq is being targeted is precisely because this is a situation where the UN is very clear and because the US will not just go rampaging around the whole world on its own.
But international support is already increasing, in lieu of the new relevations about Iraq's nuclear capacity revealed by an international body and if they actually get around to releasing their evidence soon it will increase further still (though this will only, mostly, be stuff that any person could find out if he goes and reads the relevant documents).
France and Russia have been two of Iraq's most vigorous 'supporters' in recent years; they are the leaders in pro-Iraqi sentiment outside the Arab world and now they are turning around. The mood is shifting; Iraq has failed to deliver on recent promises to allow inspectors back in- something which all countries agree is necessary- and patience is running out.
Schroeder is certainly riding the anti-American wave, for sure. But I can't see his logic; the UN has said that Iraq should not be allowed these weapons, the commission appointed by the UN says she has them and is still building them, other agencies have since repeatedly confirmed this (the new nuclear evidence being very worrying indeed) the UN says that Iraq must be compelled if she does not co-operate... how much more is there to say?
This is why France is coming around; she doesn't want an invasion regardless (which some of the more worrying US voices have been asking for (see, I think Dick Cheney is far more scary than Bush)), but now thinks there is a solid case for compelled inspections.
even our US-loving foreign politics-minister doesnt think too much of it.that is because he swing with the wind, he might change his views yet again that spineless jerk of a politician
I think Dick Cheney is far more scary than Bush)),still Bush is a warmonger and I think he has mistaken his chances of reelection clings on him going to war.