BS: NATO & the Anti-War Euros ROCK MY WORLD!

Subject: BS: NATO & the Anti-War Euros ROCK MY WORLD!
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Feb 03 - 10:04 PM

First, we had this yesterday from the pope with a pulse:

Published on Monday, February 10, 2003 by the Times/UK
Pope Takes Issue with America's 'Just War'
by Richard Owen in Rome

THE POPE launched an eleventh-hour crusade yesterday to avert a war against Iraq, for which he believes there is no justification.

The ageing pontiff rebuffed attempts by the Bush Administration to persuade him that impending military action against Baghdad amounted to a Christian "just war".

From Common Dreams website, read the rest of the article here:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0210-03.htm

And then, today France's Chirac & Russia's Putin come out with a JOINT STATEMENT declaring there is no justification for war against Iraq at this time.

THEN NATO, for the first time in it's history, turns down a "request for assistance" from member Turkey, effectively throwing YET ANOTHER ROADBLOCK in the Bush/Blair warpath!!!

This is a GREAT DAY for lovers of peace around the world!

Hooray! There is hope yet--get yourselves in the streets--any streets, anywhere in the world this Saturday, with a sign that says "NO BLOOD FOR OIL!" or some such. We can do it, people! Help Chirac, Putin, Schroeder, and NATO grow a backbone that can stand up to the Anglo Axis of Empire!

Subject: RE: BS: NATO & the Anti-War Euros ROCK MY WORLD!
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Feb 03 - 09:49 AM

I'm surprised that with all the peace mongering going on in Mudcat, that no one wants to discuss these truly hopeful developments on the diplomatic front.

Why not? I think we may even be on the verge of Kofi Annan, on behalf of the UN, aligning itself with the NATO position of not offering any assistance to the US/British invasion of Iraq.

Regardless of how this specific (Iraq) conflict sorts itself out, what we are witnessing is (finally!) a challenge to Anglo Axis of Empire from Europe's other most powerful countries--France, Germany, and Russia, and to American/British imperialism.

In other words, the power of the US & British empires are being directly challenged in the international community. That is HUGELY significant because it has never happened before.

Comments?

Subject: RE: BS: NATO & the Anti-War Euros ROCK MY WORLD!
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Feb 03 - 02:18 PM

And now China has joined the anti-war NATO & Euros.

Subject: RE: BS: NATO & the Anti-War Euros ROCK MY WORLD!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 Feb 03 - 09:29 PM

And it looks like there won't be a majority of the Security Council backing Bush, even if you leave the matter of vetoes aside.

All this is very embarassing for Blair. It could be he might not be able to deliver the UK to Bush, given the momentum of opposition to him here.

Subject: RE: BS: NATO & the Anti-War Euros ROCK MY WORLD!
From: robomatic
Date: 12 Feb 03 - 04:28 PM

Well, gee, this is just the sort of cheering that Neville Chamberlain got in 1938 when he sold out Czechoslovakia.

Celebrate away. A brave new world awaits.

Subject: RE: BS: NATO & the Anti-War Euros ROCK MY WORLD!
From: Don Firth
Date: 12 Feb 03 - 08:19 PM

War is sweet to those who do not know it. --Erasmus

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: NATO & the Anti-War Euros ROCK MY WORLD!
From: Mr Happy
Date: 12 Feb 03 - 09:26 PM

'Poor murdered men never laid down their lives, they were sent to be killed in the war' [John Heslop]