dealt a a peaceful negotiated outcome" A VOTE for a pro-war resolution at the UN would make war a near certainty.
A vote against (if it been allowed) must make it less of a certainty.
In any event the lie that only France stood in the way of a US/British resolution was exposed when Russia and China both came out in opposition to war.
Blair went from stating that war could be waged in the face of one country's "unreasonable" veto; to extending it to more than one; to asserting that a simple majority on the Security Council would be "moral victory".
The reality that Messrs Blair and Bush ultimately put NO resolution to the vote, because they couldn't even get majority.
If they really had the backing of Angola, Chile, Pakistan, Cameroon or Guinea - why did these countries not at least make a declaration of support to expose the supposed unreasonableness of the French? The proposed US publication of it's so-called "Road Map" to peace in the Middle East is a major step forward THIS HAS been described as a "transparent attempt to stretch a sticking plaster of a Middle East settlement over the gaping wound of the Iraq crisis" and amounts to little more than a commitment to an apartheid-style Bantustan state
If anyone had any illusions in it, Israeli Prime Minister Sharon soon removed these MASS MEDIA DO NOT SWALLOW
intimidation and Surely there must be some mistake. The US and British bombers are only aiming at military targets journalists as possible. Resigned to inaction public meeting where Michael Foster, brought to a halt by crowds of striking school students
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