05/09/05

The first and most obvious thing to be said about yesterday's elections is this: They were a referendum on the war, and the war lost. Remember this well. The War Party in the US will try to tell you that it isn't so, and they'll trot out various alternative explanations. They're lying. ... Labour didn't just lose seats: Its cabinet ministers lost seats -- at least four ministers and former ministers lost to Tory and Lib Dem opponents. And what, precisely, has been the source of conflict between the members of Blair's government and Parliament's Labour delegation? The war. The anti-war Lib Dems made significant percentage gains even where they didn't pull off wins. They made those gains against MPs who, reluctantly or with enthusiasm, supported the war...

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from Free Market News Network, by Thomas L. Knapp