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To: Bilow who wrote (61603)	12/13/2002 8:49:08 PM
From: frankw1900	Respond to of 281500

The Canadian government is under pressure from the left-leaning New Democrats and other activists to do more to avert a war over Iraq. New Democrat leader Alexa McDonough told reporters on Friday that Canada should launch a peace initiative with like-minded nations. The NDP party is just about extinct in Canada. Nobody cares what they think. There's hardly a leftist activist in Canada who can put a coherent thought together. They're really painful to watch. Not even the somewhat less fuzzy thinkers of the Canadian government would pay any attention to them. There's no pressure on the government from these people. Last paragraph in the article Foreign Affairs Minister rejects McDonough's proposal with a good argument against a multilateral anti-war movement: "I think this would in fact be feeding the fuel of a possible action because it would be in a way not keeping the Americans inside the U.N. on the one hand and on the other hand encouraging Iraq to believe it had an opportunity to flout the will of the U.N," he said. I still don't think the Minister's remarks will be gratefully received in Washington. They want to maintain the loose cannon image.