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http://sg.news.yahoo.com/021001/1/33cc3.html Agence France-Presse October 1, 2002 British PM warns a failure to act on Iraq could 'destroy' UN [Echoing almost word for word the inverted logic and flagrant dishonesty of his master in Washington - it doesn't matter which one it is at any given time, Blair is unvaryingly obsequious and complicit - at the United Nations on September 22nd, Blair blusters that either the UN capitulate to his and Bush's endless global war threats or he and his cohort will destroy it. "Let us lay down the ultimatum,' indeed. To Iraq and to the world. This roving war criminal's and future war crimes indictee's distortions of truth and logic are doubly disingenuous. Not only is he invoking the dissolution and evisceration of the powers of the UN Security Council in an effort to achieve just that result, but he knows better than anyone that there is little of the UN's role left to destroy. The latter was already accomplished in March of 1999 when Blair and his fellow war criminals Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Gerhard Schroeder, Lionel Jospin and Javier Solana circumvented - spurned and irreparably undermined - the United Nations and waged illegal and unsanctioned war against Yugoslavia and its people. It was during the relentless bombing of unoffending Yugoslavia - a founding member of the United Nations - that Blair announced in Chicago, urbi et orbi, what was immediately branded the Blair Doctrine; to wit, that the United Kingdom, the United States and whichever ad hoc 'coalition of the willing' the two chose to pull together for each occasion would wage military action against any country in the world it deemed fit to, on any or no pretext. Where that left whatever was left of the United Nations Organization requires no comment. What Blair is doing now is the equivalent of Brutus, and not Antony, invoking the memory and honor of the very person he has killed. '[A] new poll indicated British public support for a possible war on Iraq has dropped from 37 percent to 33 percent in the past week." Blair: "Sometimes, and particularly when dealing with a dictator, the only chance for peace is a readiness for war.' Agreed. But in the opposite manner intended by him. For what better term than dictator for a leader of a nation eager to plunge his people into yet another dangerous and criminal, unprovoked and immoral, war not supported by 67 percent of his own people.] A failure to force Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to abandon weapons of mass destruction will "destroy" the authority of the United Nations, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday. "Let us lay down the ultimatum. Let Saddam comply with the will of the UN," Blair told the annual conference of his Labour party in the seaside resort of Blackpool, northwest England. "So far most of you are with me ... if he doesn't comply, then consider: If, at this moment, having found the collective will to recognize the danger, we lose our collective will to deal with it, then we will destroy not the authority of America or Britain, but of the United Nations itself." "Sometimes, and in particular when dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war," Blair added. His remarks came as Britain and the United States pressed for a UN Security Council resolution threatening Iraq with military action if it fails to give up chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. While stressing that his vision of Britain was not as "the 51th state of anywhere," Blair declared that he would "fight long and hard" to maintain its long-standing close relationship with the United States. "For all the resentment of America, remember one thing," Blair said. "The basic values of America are our values too, British and European, and they are good values -- democracy, freedom, tolerance, justice." Blair's speech -- punctuated by applause from party members -- came as a new poll indicated British public support for a possible war on Iraq has dropped from 37 percent to 33 percent in the past week. The drop was revealed in an ICM poll conducted for the Guardian newspaper last weekend, when more than 150,000 people took part in an anti-war march in London. Blair still faces opposition to his Iraq policy within Labour's rank and file, among trade unions, and even inside his own government. In an interview to be aired on BBC News 24 on Wednesday, International Development Secretary Clare Short said unilateral military action by the United States would lead to the "break up" of the UN's authority. She refused to be drawn, however, on whether she would go so far as to quit Blair's cabinet if Britain and the United States decided to attack Iraq without prior UN approval. Washington and London are pushing for a tough new UN resolution which would give Baghdad seven days to declare all its weapons of mass destruction programmes or face military action, and another 23 days to cooperate fully with UN inspection teams. British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on Tuesday warned in an interview with BBC radio that if Saddam failed to "follow the terms of the resolution then force would be a consequence". "There is a issue about one resolution or two," Straw added, alluding to France's preference for a two-step approach. Paris says there should be two, rather than one, new UN resolutions on Iraq. That means the UN would give Baghdad one last chance to accept the unconditional return of UN weapons inspectors before deciding what to do if Iraq failed to comply. "We and (US Secretary of State) Colin Powell have made clear that we would much prefer there'd be one resolution which would not in any sense provide the automatic use of force," he said. Straw refused to be drawn on whether Britain would go along with US unilateral action against Iraq if diplomatic efforts failed. "I'm afraid I can't get into that realm of speculation. Any action that we in the United Kingdom take will be strictly in accordance with our obligations in international law and under the United Nations charter," he said. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? 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