It is strange how most of the anti-Iraq war protesters were muslims, students, communists and new age travellers. I don't think many normal members of the public were against a war to overthrow a brutal regime which was responsible for the murder of 300,000 of its own people, the invasion of a sovereign democratic country - Kuwait and a war with Iran which lasted from 1980 to 1988 and cost one million lives. Also the Iraqi Kurds did not support the anti-war movement, they wanted rid of Saddam as soon as possible.

Have you forgotton the images of the mass graves found in Iraq containing up to 300,000 bodies. Have you forgotton the 1988 massacre of 5,000 Kurds at Halabja? Have you also forgotton the fact that Saddam Hussein was a total madman, determind to be the first arab leader to posses nuclear weapons?

Anti-War = Muslims, Communists, Students and New Age Travellers?

BBC Newsnight reported last night over 50% of the population (56m) think the war was wrong and want the troops brought home. Given about 1m Muslims, maybe 5m-odd Students and a few thousand Travellers.. well, there must be a heck of a lot of Communists!

 http://www.stopwar.org.uk

F**k when was that picture with the white overall took place? I don't remember it happening anywhere during the protest was it staged?

This is an Anti-War exhibition. Anti - war means NO War......thats NO WAR.
Moderately reasonable voices like voice of reason appear to believe that there is a just reason for the murdering of tens of thousands or millions, but only, it seems, if its vors' lot that are doing the murdering and killing.
It is entirely possible that Saddam Hussein is a fearful, power mad, coward that murdered,killed and tortured people. Not just.......in the name of humanity, if you believe in humanity.
However, in the examples given by vor, the killings at Halabjah and the Iraq -Iran war were both clearly, very evidentially clearly, supported by our very own brave boys and girls, well actually, no, by our very own fearful, power mad, cowardly creatures........
We supplied the weapons and chemicals, pilots and means to the despicable despot Saddam Hussein, way back in the 1980's and he went off to kill some of his own peoples.....so we supplied him some more resources, weapons and means and he went off and did it again.
Hardly an outcry from the west until, that is, the USA found its oil petrochemical dollars and supplies to be under threat and then he was the worlds biggest baddest baddie, notwithstanding George H. Bush.
Voice of reason at this stage, probably doesnt believe this, or want to believe it.
Where is the evidence?
All around, vor. Go to a website and search.
Go to the UN in New York City and try to read the 13,000 page document on weapons, bio and chemical that Iraq was asked to supply....and DID in year 2003.
We, YOUR LOT, sold him the weapons and supplies to KILL. It details the companies and countries in that 13,000 page document..............but of course, dear democratic USA took out,illegally took out several thousand pages of incriminating evidence before most of the worlds UN nations could read it. tsk, tsk, Dictators huh?
Who'd ave em?

AUNTIEWAR -NOWAR.

i can't remember exactly which demo, but it was one of the anti-war ones, and people were leaving from parliament square late on, and some 'wombles' were trying to stop from getting penned in with a crowd on whitehall near downing street. the police tried to nick their banners, and were getting very frisky that night.

The "voice of reason" forgets that we backed S.Hussein in the Iran/Iraq war. That we sold him weapons and torture equipment. That the year after the Halabja massacre British companies were at the Baghdad arms fair flogging more weapons backed up by the ECGD. That he could have been overthrown in 1991 when we encouraged minorities to rise up and then left them in the lurch to be slaughtered. That 12 years of sanctions crushed the country and ALL its people down from one of the wealthiest in the Arab world to one of grinding, third-world poverty (except, of course, the ruling clique). Oh, why do I bother with these idiots with selective memories.

That photo was taken on the Disobedient's Day of Direct Action Against the War - Halloween 31st October 2002. The officer in black in the centre is CO2558 of the FIT/POIU.