[SOC] The Peace Protest

Sun, 16 Feb 2003 15:10:57 -0000

Tend to agree. I'm firmly on the fence myself.

The Iraqi regime under Hussein has killed some one million of its own
population and if you take into account the death toll resulting from the
various wars that Iraq has started the total gets to more than two million.

Why are these facts not being confronted by the anti-war groups? Beats me.

Hussein has been flouting the security council for years. The only time he
backs down is when presented with unmistakeable threat. His actions and the
vacillation of the UN threatens the security council's relevance in exactly
the same way that the League of Nations failed spectacularly in the
thirties.

I don't want war but I believe we must be prepared to wage it. If that
persuades the odious bastard to knuckle under without a fight then I'll be
at the front cheering. I suspect it won't happen though.

The apparent softening of the Iraqi position would in no way have happened
without there being a credible threat on its borders.

Paul :-(

p.s.

Hmmm. This is probably a 'death penalty' like subject. I won't offer any
further opinion here unless it appears that the consensus is that it's an
appropriate suject for debate.

p.p.s.

I took part in both the Countryside marches in London. We managed a
creditable 300,000 arguing from a minority position. All of a sudden 750,000
from the entire (and mostly urban) population doesn't look so impressive.

---- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Redding" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 2:10 PM
Subject: [SOC] The Peace Protest

> The protest in London was pretty impressive too, with between 750,000 and
1
> Million taking part.
>
> Sadly this only represented 1.5% of the UK's population, despite taking
> place in the most densely-populated part of England.
>
> As nobody saw fit to organise a "For God's sake rescue Iraq from this evil
> tyrant's regime, but do everything humanly possible to avoid civilian
> casualties" demonstration to compare it with, what was proved...I don't
> know.
> Chris G4PDJ
>
>
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