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lchic - 12:13pm Feb 15, 2003 EST (# 8919 of 8926)
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Anti-war | The tiny South Pacific island nation of Fiji also saw its share of anti-war sentiment, with an anti-war group sending floral messages to foreign embassies urging them to put pressure on the US and its allies to avoid war.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2765215.stm

rshow55 - 12:14pm Feb 15, 2003 EST (# 8920 of 8926)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

Blair: inspectors will get more time Staff and agencies Saturday February 15, 2003 http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,896282,00.html

"The prime minister, Tony Blair, today told the Labour party's spring conference that weapons inspectors will get more time to establish whether Iraq has complied with UN demands to disarm.

"Speaking in Glasgow as protesters gathered in the city to march against war in Iraq, a view shared by many in his party, Mr Blair said that the chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, would again report to the security council on February 28.

"However, the prime minister was dismissive of recent concessions made by the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein.

" To anyone familiar with Saddam's tactics of deception and evasion, there is a weary sense of deja vu," he told party members.

" As ever, at the last minute, concessions are made. And as ever, it is the long finger that is directing them. The concessions are suspect. Unfortunately, the weapons are real."

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"In an impassioned message to those taking part in today's anti-war demonstrations, Mr Blair said: "I rejoice that we live in a country where peaceful protest is a natural part of our democratic process.

" I ask the marchers to understand this: I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour. But sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.

" As you watch your TV pictures of the march, ponder this: if there are 500,000 on that march, that is still less than the number of people whose deaths Saddam has been responsible for.

" If there are one million, that is still less than the number of people who died in the wars he started."

"He insisted that removing President Saddam was the moral case for action. "It is not the reason we act," he said. "That must be according to the UN mandate on weapons of mass destruction.

"But it is the reason why, if we do have to act, we should do so with a clear conscience."

"Mr Blair said, however, that he hoped Iraq could be disarmed peacefully, " with or without Saddam".

"He added: " But if we show weakness now, if we allow the plea for more time to become just an excuse for prevarication until the moment for action passes, then it will not only be Saddam who is repeating history.

" The menace, and not just from Saddam, will grow, the authority of the UN will be lost, and the conflict, when it comes, will be more bloody."

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