Reasons to Bomb Iraq

by Andrew Thu Jan 09, 2003 17:43

Time magazine are running an online poll on who is the greatest threat to world peace in 2003 at http://www.time.com/time/europe/gdml/peace2003.html

They put down North Korean and Iraq and then I guess for balance added the USA as well. Guess which one 61% of the 12,000 odd voters reckon is the greatest threat to world peace this year. Here is a clue, you won't see this result on the front cover of the next issue.

by Raymond McInerney Fri Jan 10, 2003 00:11

as often as you like.

by Irony is dead Fri Jan 10, 2003 10:16

> Anti-war train drivers refuse to move arms freight
>
> Kevin Maguire
> Thursday January 9, 2003
> The Guardian
>
> Train drivers yesterday refused to move a freight train carrying
ammunition
> believed to be destined for British forces being deployed in the Gulf.
> Railway managers cancelled the Ministry of Defence service after the
> crewmen, described as "conscientious objectors" by a supporter, said they
> opposed Tony Blair's threat to attack Iraq.
>
> The anti-war revolt is the first such industrial action by workers for
> decades.
>
> The two Motherwell-based drivers declined to operate the train between the
> Glasgow area and the Glen Douglas base on Scotland's west coast, Europe's
> largest Nato weapons store.
>
> English Welsh and Scottish Railway (EWS), which transports munitions for
the
> MoD as well as commercial goods, yesterday attempted to persuade the
drivers
> to move the disputed load by tomorrow.
>
> Leaders of the Aslef rail union were pressed at a meeting with EWS
> executives to ask the drivers to relent. But the officials of a union
> opposed to any attack on Iraq are unlikely to comply.
>
> The two drivers are understood to be the only pair at the Motherwell
freight
> depot trained on the route of the West Highland Line.
>
> An EWS spokesman declined to confirm the train had been halted, although
he
> insisted no drivers had refused to take out the trains.
>
> "We don't discuss commercial issues," he said.
>
> "The point about the two drivers is untrue and we don't discuss issues
about
> meetings we have."
>
> Yet his claim was flatly contradicted by a well-placed rail industry
source
> who supplied the Guardian with the train's reference number.
>
> The MoD later said it had been informed by EWS that mechanical problems,
> caused by the cold winter weather, had resulted in the train's
cancellation.
>
> One solution under discussion yesterday between the MoD and EWS was to
> transport the shipment by road to avoid what rail managers hoped would be
an
> isolated confrontation.
>
> Dockers went on strike rather than load British-made arms on to ships
> destined for Chile after the assassination of leftwing leader Salvador
> Allende in 1973.
>
> In 1920 stevedores on London's East India Docks refused to move guns on to
> the Jolly George, a ship chartered to take weapons to anti-Bolsheviks
after
> the Russian revolution.
>
> Trade unions supporting workers who refuse to handle weapons could risk
> legal action and possible fines for contempt of court.
>
> Lindsey German, convener of the Stop the War Coalition, said: "We fully
> support the action that has been taken to impede an unjust and aggressive
> war. We hope that other people around the country will be able to do
> likewise."
>
> The anti-war group is organising a second national demonstration in
central
> London on Saturday February 15. Organisers claimed more than 400,000
people
> attended a protest in September.

by quick Fri Jan 10, 2003 18:18

It's 49% now, get voting!!