If Britain's proposed laws on inciting terrorism were applied fairly, those who incite wars of aggression would also be in the dock

By Salim Lone

The kind of language proposed in the British legislation could easily characterise a call to resist allied occupation soldiers in Iraq as incitement. Is force now to be the preserve of the powerful?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10360.htm

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

09/23/05

The closer we look at what happened in Basra the other day, the murkier and more suspicious the picture gets. Two British undercover operatives fired at the Iraqi police, killing one and injuring another, and were taken into custody, then 'rescued' as British tanks laid siege to police headquarters. The incident culminated in a pitched battle between Iraqi and British forces, and in its aftermath a war of words is heating up that threatens to expose a widening chasm between these two ostensible 'allies.' We are told that our enemy in Iraq is a shadowy network of al-Qaeda-affiliated suicide bombers who will do anything to disrupt that country's march toward 'democracy,' but instead we find coalition troops shooting at the very Iraqi police we are investing so much money, effort, and hope into. What in blazes is going on?

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7366


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

USA Today

09/22/05

Iraq is moving toward disintegration, and war there could spread to its neighbors, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said Thursday. In part because of a new constitution that would give more power to various regions in Iraq, 'there seems to be no dynamic that is pulling the country together,' Saud said. Iraqis are to vote on the constitution next month. Sunni Arab leaders are urging a 'no' vote, while majority Shiites urge approval...

http://tinyurl.com/d9ad9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Iraq War, Downgraded to a Box Score, is Lost
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10351.htm

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From Information Clearing House

British soldiers should not be required to give their lives in order to feed the vanity of an arrogant politician. This is Blair's Vietnam, not theirs.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/47401-print.shtml



Caught in a dilemma of our own making:

Like it or not, the British are being dragged out of cover into the limelight, and with that must come the hard questions of what we are doing there, what it is costing, and when we will get out. Unnerving though the phrase "exit strategy" might be, it is one that can no longer be avoided.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10355.htm


From Information Clearing House

Iraqi police recently caught two terrorists with a car full of explosives. Would it surprise you to learn they were British Special Forces?

http://tinyurl.com/dlpj8


From Information Clearing House

This is a fiasco without parallel in recent British history. Iraqis must run their country: we've made enough mess of it already

By Simon Jenkins

Don't be fooled a second time. They told you Britain must invade Iraq because of its weapons of mass destruction. They were wrong. Now they say British troops must stay in Iraq because otherwise it will collapse into chaos. This second lie is infecting everyone.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10354.htm