Word: antiwar
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...Hardly surprisingly, the Democrats are demanding an inquiry. The surging support for antiwar Vermont governor Howard Dean in the Democratic nomination race signals deep discomfort among the party's core supporters over the war, and some of those who voted for the war may be inclined to use the presence of fake intelligence in President Bush's case for war to back away from their own support for the invasion. Still, they may have plenty to work with, because there's plenty of evidence emerging to challenge the White House assertion that it was not informed, before the State...
...hard for Americans to shake the collective memory of Vietnam when they're sending young men and women to kill and die in distant lands. And it's not only the quagmire-phobic antiwar types that can't avoid the Vietnam references: To raise their morale before entering Iraq in March, U.S. Marines in Kuwait were visited by R. Lee Ermey, the Vietnam vet who has become a USMC legend for his portrayal of a hard-as-nails gunnery sergeant in Stanley Kubrick's 'Nam flick "Full Metal Jacket." Ermey obliged by reciting some of his more memorable motivational lines...
...Most damaging for Blair - and by extension, Bush - is that these are not the allegations of antiwar outsiders pouncing on the failure of coalition forces to find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; Claire Short and Robin Cook were both informed insiders privy to at least some of Blair's insider information until shortly before the invasion began. And both insisted in their testimony that during their private briefings from senior British intelligence officials, it was made clear that Blair was exaggerating the threat presented by Saddam. Short claims she was told by three different senior officials that Blair...
...justified their vote for war will eventually emerge. But presidential contender Senator John Kerry this week accused President Bush of lying in making his case for war - perhaps a reflection that Kerry, who voted for the war, is losing ground among the party's liberal base to the consistently antiwar Vermont governor Howard Dean. (Kerry has not thus far indicated whether he would have voted differently if he knew then what he knows...
...march to Baghdad, the Iraq war was an extremely tough sell for the British Prime Minister. Millions marched against the war in London; two Cabinet ministers resigned over it, and in the crucial House of Commons vote authorizing war, 138 members of Blair's Labour Party voted for an antiwar amendment, the largest rebellion in parliamentary history. Blair's tenacious battle for public opinion rested squarely on the imminent danger posed by Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. "I have never put our justification for action as regime change," he told the House of Commons. "We have to act within...