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To: michael97123 who wrote (92439)	4/11/2003 9:27:02 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

A UK Anti war in Iraq letter.. [The uncertainty on the prospect of war, unintended consequences, is a factor also that played on peoples mind. imho. There is also several things unresolved yet. pb] UNCONVINCED BY BLAIR'S WAR PLAN. 25 February 2003 I write in response to XXXXX's letter (February 19) about the peace protest marchers. Denigrating those who marched by misrepresenting their reasons is offensive. Mr XXXXX says that the march wasn't a protest about people being killed. It most certainly was - I was there. Why so many people all across the world protested was because the two reasons given for this war do not add up. No one believes them. Denigrating the inspectors by saying they are ineffective flies in the face of the facts. They have destroyed far more weapons of mass destruction than were destroyed during the war. The notion that this war is about the welfare of the Iraqi people and that they themselves want the war to take place might be a good reason if there was the slightest evidence to support it. I think most of the people living in Iraq can be expected not to look forward to having bombs rained down on them. My guess would be that those living outside the danger zone are the ones wanting a war. The consequences of a war and the deaths resulting from the disruption of electricity, water, sewage etc, are unimaginable. Money is readily available for war but not available at all for humanitarian contingency plans. The Americans are desperate to have alternative sources of oil - they will shortly be running out of the stuff. The White House is largely staffed by oil tycoons - including President Bush. Saddam happens to be sitting on a very large oil well. So some people think, not unnaturally, that the Americans are after Saddam's oil. Mr Blair hotly denies this. He and his cabinet colleagues must be the only people on this planet to image that oil has nothing to do with it. Mr Blair considers that as Prime Minister he is in a position to declare war on Iraq. In a democracy certain things are sacrosanct. Government by consent of the people.