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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR

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To: Just_Observing who wrote (13879)	2/28/2003 9:29:41 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) of 25898

Blair's war-mongering has sparked the biggest government revolt in British Parliamentary history! mirror.co.uk Tony Blair was humiliated by a Commons rebellion last night over plans to bomb Iraq. The PM's war plans were opposed by 199 MPs - nearly a third of the House - 121 of them Labour. The rebel Labour backbenchers supported a motion insisting the case for war was "as yet unproven." Foreign Secretary Jack Straw was said to look "shattered" after the vote. And Mr Blair faced demands to listen to the voice of Parliament before attacking Iraq. Rebel ringleaders said the anti-war vote - the biggest revolt against any government in history - sent a powerful message to both the PM and George Bush. . . . Tony Blair skulked out of the Commons as fast as he could yesterday as the scale of MPs' opposition to war on Iraq became clear. He hung around for just 35 minutes of the six and a quarter hour debate. . . . The humiliating Labour revolt was the largest since Mr Blair came to power and was boosted by more than 50 Lib Dems and 13 Tories.

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