William Russell, the great correspondent who reported the carnage of imperial wars, may have first used the expression "blood on his hands" to describe impeccable politicians who, at a safe distance, order the mass killing of ordinary people. In my experience "on his hands" applies especially to those modern political leaders who have had no personal experience of war, like George W Bush, who managed not to serve in Vietnam, and the effete Tony Blair. There is about them the essential cowardice of the man who causes death and suffering not by his own hand but through a chain of command that affirms his "authority". -- John Pilger

Chickenhawk is the term used to describe a warmonger who has carefully avoided direct involvement in conflict themselves. Chief Chickenhawk is Bush himself who managed to not turn up for National Guard duty during the Vietnam War and since then has never been able to account for his absenteeism - we're fairly certain it had nothing to do with being a conscientious objector. -- SchNEWS

The people have risen, no more Blair. Even Thatcher in her darkest hours couldn't bring this number of people out on the streets. Tony Blair looked out from the Scottish spring conference and saw the people had risen up against him.

Party chairman and Blair creep, Charles Clark, tried to rationalise the numbers. 1 million was apparently the number Saddam Hussein had killed, 1 million the number of Kurds forced to flee. Of course he failed to mention the 1 million killed was when Saddam was 'our guy' in the Middle East, that the Turks have driven 6 million Kurds from their homes. Typical stomach churning crap from a has-been party politician who has yet to get the message, it's now the people who are in control.

It is now 'inhumane' not to attack Iraq, to not effect regime change. The last time the West effected 'regime change' in Baghdad was to bring the Ba'ath Party and Saddam Hussein to power.

'Humane' intervention by the West carpeted the country in depleted uranium from the use of DU weaponry in the last Gulf War. Testimony to this 'humane' intervention are the short lives of the grossly deformed children, a phenomenon unknown prior to the last Gulf war. Continuation of this 'humane' intervention is to deny Iraq specialist equipment that would allow its engineers to decontaminate its southern battlefields and to deny equipment and drugs that would identify and treat the cancers which, it is estimated, will affect almost half the population in the south.

The 'humane' intervention will start with Shock and Awe, which according to the Pentagon is intended to shatter Iraq 'physically, emotionally and psychologically' by raining down on its people 800 cruise missiles in two days, more than twice the number of missiles launched during the entire 40 days of the last Gulf War. This facet of 'humane' intervention developed by military strategist Harlan Ullman produces a 'simultaneous effect, rather like the nuclear weapons at Hiroshima, not taking days or weeks but minutes.'

Stop the War, and Not in Our Name, was a spin-off of the anti-globalisation movement, a movement we were told was finished. What are finished are the has-beens, the hypocrites who think they have a mandate to walk all over us and line their pockets at our expense.

When people attend rallies they become informed, they inform their friends and neighbours. When Blair and his media lackeys lie, we know the truth and see through their lies.

We must maintain the momentum, to put the people back in control. A popular democratic uprising. We Have Had Enough.

Blair, it is time to resign.