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| Britain
will be, next to America, the most popular place to
explode it. In snubbing the UN he and Bush have made a
mockery of all the work of the peace makers since World
War 2. Fortunately, sanity has not been declared a
prohibited state of mind in the British Isles. Tony Benn has courageously accepted an invitation from the Iraqis to go to Baghdad to interview President Saddam Husain. Just as courageously, a British surgeon, David Halpin, is to go the heart of Middle East anger and anguish, Palestinian Gaza, with aid to a long-suffering population. And George Monbiot in the Guardian makes a persuasive case for all out war, not on Iraq but on the Bush-Blair conspiracy. All is not lost. Quite. § |