Britons regaining senses??


Posted by Helena Cobban
September 20, 2004 10:41 PM EST | Link
Filed in Blair's Britain

This, from Reuters:

    Most Britons want Prime Minister Tony Blair to set a date for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, according to a poll for the Guardian newspaper on Tuesday.

    Seven out of 10 of those polled by ICM said Blair should set a deadline for a pullout of the 8,500 British soldiers in Iraq.

    By contrast, an ICM-Guardian poll in May found 45 percent of voters believed British troops should remain in Iraq "for as long as necessary."

In March 2003, I wrote this JWN post: The Brits should know better. All I can say is it took them a long time to come to their senses...

Still, Sept. 21 is the International Day of Peace. Happy Peace Day everyone!! Shalom, salam, paix, mir, paz, amahoro! This current phase of US craziness will, I am sure, come to an end some day!



Comments
Comment from... adela, at September 21, 2004 07:31 AM:

re: "This current phase of US craziness will, I am sure, come to an end some day."

Reminds me of advice someone gave me when i was complaining abt my 1-year-old dropping her dinner on the floor to share with our dogs: "Don't you worry yourself too much abt it... pretty soon she'll leave off doing that and take up something worse!"

Comment from... William Shaw, at September 21, 2004 11:20 AM:

Oh, c'mon. No Brit bashing. After all, two million of us marched against Blair's war in February 2003 - the biggest ever demonstration in the UK - and his Iraq policy has remained unpopular here in the polls. Like the Spanish, we're just unlucky enough to have leaders who are over-desperate to curry favor with you Yanks.

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