Re: [A-List] UK majority against attack on Iraq

["Xxxx Xxxxxx" <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xx>]

actually, Britain has its own imperialist agendas in the middle east and
central asia, as the several articles about British "sub-imperialism" from
the Guardian magazine have proved. The issue is about Britain's desire to
control over oil
resources and share world's goodies with the US: ABC's of Lenin's theory of
imperialism.

This poll about Iraq does not mean that Europe is anti-imperialist.

am i wrong in assuming that Burford always finds a tricky way to apologize
imperialism?

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Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Ph.D Candidate, ABD
Department of Political Science
SUNY at Albany
Nelson A. Rockefeller College
135 Western Ave.; Milne 102
Albany, NY 12222


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Burford" <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <a-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 7:49 PM
Subject: [A-List] UK majority against attack on Iraq


> Here is the poll
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> >The poll shows that a clear majority - 51% - would disapprove of British
> >political support for an American-led attack on Iraq, with or without the
> >presence of British troops. Only 35% say they would support such action.
> >
> >Labour voters are split down the middle on the issue with marginally
more,
> >46%, saying they would disapprove than the 43% who say Britain should
back
> >such a US attack.
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> >But Conservative voters are slightly more hostile to an attack on Iraq,
> >with 48% against and 41% in favour, leaving Iain Duncan Smith at odds
with
> >half of his party's voters.
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> >Opposition to a new war in Iraq marks a sharp change of mood in British
> >public opinion in recent months. Last October some 74% said they
supported
> >US and British military action against Afghanistan. It is also signifies
a
> >change in long-term attitude towards Iraq among the British public.
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> http://politics.guardian.co.uk/attacks/story/0,1320,669904,00.html
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> Tonight the report from the UK Parliament is of "widespread concern"
> according to the chief political reporter of ITV, about the new combat
> force of British troops being sent to Afghanistan, with more people
voicing
> the connection that if troops are needed in Afghanistan this is an
> additional reason for not rushing into Iraq. The Conservatives are raising
> their own disquiet about the British financial contribution for the
Turkish
> contingent being sent to Afghanistan.
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> There is a change in political mood in Britain of resistance to joining
> wholeheartedly with the USA in widening the war against terrorism, with
> public opinion being closer to that in Germany and France.
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> Chris Burford
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