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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (14589)	3/2/2003 11:05:21 AM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 25898

Scott--you got a link for the gassing story? Thanks!

To: stockman_scott who wrote (14589)	3/2/2003 11:06:07 AM
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U.K. Labor Lawmaker Cautions Against War By Associated Press March 2, 2003, 9:48 AM EST LONDON -- A Labor Party lawmaker said Sunday that "a lot more" legislators will join a rebellion against the government if Britain participates in a U.S.-led war on Iraq without United Nations approval. Chris Smith, a leading Labor Party opponent of war, said lawmakers would be "very unhappy" if Prime Minister Tony Blair backed military action without a second resolution from the U.N. Security Council. On Wednesday, 199 lawmakers -- including 122 from Blair's Labor Party -- backed a House of Commons motion calling the case for war "unproven." It was the biggest revolt Blair has faced since Labor was elected with a big majority in 1997, though the government still got 393 votes to defeat it. Smith was the prime sponsor of the defeated amendment. "If the weapons inspectors are still saying we need more time, the world community is saying 'We agree with that, we're not going to have a second resolution at this stage' and nonetheless America, and Britain alongside it, go to war, I suspect there will be a lot more than 199 Members of Parliament very unhappy about that happening and prepared to voice their concern in the division lobby," Smith, a former Culture Secretary in Blair's government, told GMTV television. The United States and Britain hope to secure a new U.N. Security Council resolution declaring Iraq in breach of its obligation to disarm and paving the way for war. Other Security Council members, led by France, have called for inspectors to be given more time and resources to search for banned chemical and biological weapons. French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said his government would oppose a second resolution -- though he did not say whether France would use its Security Council veto if a resolution were introduced. "When we wrote together the Security Council Resolution 1441, what did we say? We said we should work through the inspections until the point when we found ourselves in a deadlock," he told the British Broadcasting Corp.'s "Breakfast with Frost" program, recorded Saturday and broadcast Sunday. "It is for the inspectors to write a report saying `We can't work any more.' "Are we in such a situation? No. Do we need a second resolution? No. Are we going to oppose a second resolution? Yes, as are the Russians and many other countries." newsday.com