Make no mistake, this is a major setback for the US. If the UK pulls out,\r\nHoward will be unable to keep Australia in the war. Spain will likely bail as\r\nwell, rather than risk a popular uprising. The illusion of a coalition will be\r\nbroken. It's just the US invading Iraq, plain and simple.\r\n<\/p>
In short, the peace demonstrations are WORKING. Blair and the MPs looked out\r\ntheir windows at a million people opposed to the war, and knew fear. This\r\nweekend, there is another chance to show the war-mongers that nobody will show\r\nup for their war. We The People quit. We refuse to be part of it. We refuse to\r\nbe lied to. We refuse to be deceived. We refuse to be afraid, least of all of\r\nour own government. We refuse to pay for the bombs. We refuse to surrender our\r\nchildren. We refuse to kill who we are told, hate who we are told, steal from\r\nwhom we are told.\r\n<\/p>
This Saturday, be part of the generation that told the world's governments\r\nthat they won't play that war-game any more. That we have, as a society,\r\noutgrown the need to whack each other over the heads over a \"clash of\r\ncivilizations\", kill over whose gods have the bigger geniitals, and pillage\r\nother people to bail out a bankrupt government that spends recklessly, then\r\nresorts to war and conquest to get out of its debts.\r\n<\/p>
The British people told their government, \"NO\"! The Government\r\nlistened. If Americans say ,\"NO\" loud enough, and often enough, this\r\ngovernment will have to listen, because in a Democracy, which the US purports to\r\nbe, the will of the people is the law of the land.\r\n<\/p>
Saturday is the day to make your will known. Be there!<\/p>\r\n
3\/11\/03 Brits\r\nBacking Out?\r\n<\/p>
3\/11\/03 Rumsfeld\r\nBacktracks on British War Role in Iraq Blair can't deliver\r\n<\/p>
3\/11\/03 Rumsfeld:\r\nUS ready to fight 'without UK' Blair can't deliver<\/p>\r\n
-- <\/p>\r\n
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