Sorry to bombard those of you not interested with links, but for those who are, another two from today's Observer, including another excellent Nick Cohen article on the anti-war movement in the UK, and with a good quote from an Iraqi democrat:
"Salih. . . had little time for those who say war should be opposed because 'it's all about oil'. "So what? he asked. 'Iraqis know that their human rights have too often been ignored because Iraqi oil was more important to the world than Iraqi lives. It would be a good irony if at long last oil becomes a cause of our liberation - if this is the case, then so be it. The oil will be a blessing and not the curse that it has been for so long... So to those who say "No War", I say, of course "yes", but we can only have "No War" if there is "No Dictatorship" and "No Genocide".' " Nick Cohen piece called "The Left isn't Listening" at http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,896659,00.html and good Observer backgrounder on the CIA and the Iraq democratic movement at http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,896778,00.html What will happen if the Bush adminstration is not very careful, is that the Kurds will go their own way, as they've been practising democracy for years and they're not going to go back to dictatorship. If that happens, they'll take the Turkish Kurds with them, then America would have to choose whether to side with Turkey (which it's obliged to do under NATO) or the pro-democract Kurds. Sarah
