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To: LindyBill who wrote (41911)	9/4/2002 8:39:39 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Blair's silence is no longer an option By simon jenkins Opinion Times Online September 04, 2002 timesonline.co.uk <<...After September 11 a year ago, Mr Blair flew round the world in an impressive act of diplomacy. He forged a “coalition against terror” that had Russia, China and almost the entire Arab world on America’s side. This had Yassir Arafat giving blood for America. It had every European government declaring “we are all Americans now”. As the anniversary documentaries indicate (such as Channel 4’s excellent Dubya’s Posse last weekend), that coalition was crucial to the global campaign against al-Qaeda, a campaign that has yet to succeed. That coalition could not speak more clearly. It regards as a dangerous distraction the war which Mr Bush is actively planning and Mr Blair is ready to support. To try to remove Saddam by force without calling his latest bluff on weapons inspection or seeking widespread support through the UN would undo all that Mr Blair and others achieved a year ago. It might possibly remove one threat to Western interests. It would certainly generate another...>>