FIFTY, LONG, UNNECESSARY
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"You have to understand, that, in Britain,
people have been unhappy and angry, for the
past 50 years, but protest has been crushed,
like with the miners' strikes of the 1970s,
sometimes using very subtle methods."

 Brits Move To Dump Blair
By Mark Burdman

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 Executive Intelligence Review
 www.LaRouchePub.com/eiw
 2-18-3

After a day, Feb. 15, which saw the largest political demonstration
ever in London, with two million marchers protesting plans for a war
in Iraq, and with tens of thousands marching in Glasgow and Belfast,
moves gathered pace, among leading circles in the ruling Labour
Party and elsewhere, for British Prime Minister Tony Blair to be
dumped, as soon as that can be arranged.

With all signs pointing to the Bush Administration being
fully committed to an Iraq war, in the weeks immediately ahead,
the dumping of Blair, the Administration's main ally for the war
drive, might well be the one qualitative event, that would knock
the war off course.

Blair is reeling, not only from the mass demonstrations
inside Britain, but from his isolation, in the international
political-diplomatic arena. On Feb. 14, nations representing
a large percentage of humanity, spoke out during the United
Nations Security Council debate that followed the report by
chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix -- a report that, itself,
was a slap in the face to Washington and London -- against a
rush to war against Iraq. Then, on Feb. 17, the insistence by
Blair and his Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, for an overt threat
of short-term war against Iraq was rejected by European
Union leaders, at an emergency EU summit called by Greece,
the country currently occupying the rotating EU Presidency.

Blair returned to Britain, with his tail between his legs. He tried
to downplay the war rhetoric, during a Feb. 18 press conference,
insisting that "there is no rush to war," while sources close to
him claimed, on that day, that he would be having a private
audience with Pope John Paul II, on Feb. 22. This may be an
attempt by Blair to soften his image, but it is questionable,
whether even the Holy Father could redeem this corrupted soul.
"TONY BLAIR IS FINISHED"

That there are significant efforts in motion, to get rid of him,
was confirmed, during a Feb. 16 discussion with Executive
Intelligence Review (EIR), by Tam Dalyell, the longest-serving
member of the House of Commons (known in Britain as the
"Father of the House of Commons"), and the most courageous
fighter, against this immoral imperial war. Dalyell's efforts
have been highlighted, in recent editions of EIR.

He had attended the spring conference of the Labour Party,
in Glasgow, Scotland, on Feb. 15, where Blair had cowardly
escaped the 70,000 antiwar demonstrators who had gathered
there (see accompanying article). Dalyell proclaimed: "The new
situation is, that there are serious people, who are serious
about dumping Tony Blair. A lot of people want him out." He added
the qualification, that the complexity of inner-Labour Party rules
made this somewhat problematic, technically speaking, but
stressed that the desire and intent to get rid of Blair is
growing qualitatively, within Labour ranks.

This was confirmed, the next day, by British Labour
parliamentarian Alice Mahon, Dalyell's closest collaborator
in antiwar efforts, within the House of Commons. She was
quoted, on the front-page of the Feb. 17 London Guardian,
insisting that a leadership challenge to Blair will be mounted,
within Labour, if he refuses to allow more time for weapons
inspections in Iraq, and insists on rushing to war: "Yes, of
course, people are talking. There's no point in denying that."

Then, on Feb. 18, the Labour-linked London Daily Mirror, ran
a strongly worded article, by Whitehall Editor Paul Gilfeather,
under the headline, "We'll Oust Blair", with a sub-headline that
"MPs [Members of Parliament--ed.] plot an antiwar revolt to
topple Prime Minister: 'He Won't Listen, He Must Go.'"

Gilfeather stated: "Tony Blair faces a leadership challenge over
his plans to attack Iraq. The Daily Mirror has learned of a plot
involving disillusioned MPs, peers [Members of the House of
Lords --ed.] and union bosses. It would be the first such move
against the Premier since he swept to power in 1997. One
ringleader said, 'These are firm proposals.'"

The Mirror went on: "The Labour MP, who asked not to be
named, added: 'We have the numbers required to mount
a challenge. It is now a firm view right across the Labour
Party, that Tony Blair is finished, because of his refusal to
listen to overwhelming opposition to war with Iraq.'"

Tony Woodley, deputy general secretary of the
Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU), told
the Mirror: "Mr. Blair's in real trouble here."

The Mirror article was accompanied by a photo of a
goggle-eyed Blair, with the caption, "FINISHED? Wild-eyed
Blair insists he'll follow George Bush to war."

Further adding insult to the Prime Minister, the lead front-page
article of the Labour-linked Guardian, on Feb. 18, had a banner
headline, "Blair's Popularity Plummets". The article noted that
newest poll results show "a rift between Tony Blair and the public
over war against Iraq". Blair "has sustained significant political
damage" from the Iraq debate, and "his personal rating has
dropped through the floor." Support for the war has fallen to 29%,
the lowest since these kinds of polls began to be taken, in
August 2002.  "THE IRAQ ISSUE IS A CATALYST"
 

Even more precarious for Blair, is the reality, that the
demonstrations of Feb. 15 express much more, than only
opposition to a war against Iraq, as important as that issue is.
The rotten, lying, and "spin"-laden moves by the Blair government
respecting Iraq, as well as the extremely bellicose threats and
unqualified support for a most dubious American Administration,
have become emblematic, for millions of Britons, of a deeper
rottenness, characterizing present-day Great Britain.

The point was made by a leading British social-psychology
expert, in a background discussion with EIR, on Feb. 17.
He stated: "Not since the [night of Aug. 31-Sept. 1, 1997] death
of Princess Diana, and the funerals and mass outpourings of
deep emotion and anger at established institutions that Britain
saw then, has anything been seen here, like we are seeing
now, with the mass protests against an Iraq war."

He stressed: "You have to understand, that the Iraq issue is
primarily a CATALYST, for something much bigger. There is the
EXTERNAL reality, respecting the danger of war, but there is the
crucial INTERNAL reality, that much of Britain is COLLAPSING.
The health system is a disaster, the road and rail infrastructure
is a disaster. So, what you have, with the Iraq issue, is a DOUBLE
PROTEST: the OVERT protest, against a war, and the COVERT
protest, against the state of Britain."

The expert went on: "You have to understand, that, in Britain,
people have been unhappy and angry, for the past 50 years,
but protest has been crushed, like with the miners' strikes of
the 1970s, sometimes using very subtle methods. But now, this
buildup of internal protest, is finding an expression, through
the Iraq issue. And this time, the protest, because of the massive
presence of mainstream 'Middle England' protesters who are
peaceful people, cannot be dispersed by force, or related
methods. Were the government now to do something like that,
it would seem to be just like the Iraqi and North Korean
regimes that are always being criticized."

He emphasized again: "Remember what happened after
Diana died. People experienced, through their sadness and
other emotions, a reconnection with reality. That is what we are
seeing now, but this time, I think we will see more profound,
and longer-lasting effects." BLAIRITE PROPAGANDA:
"THE REAL SIGN OF DESPERATION"

With their backs to the wall, Blair and his entourage are
mounting a flight-forward counter-attack, on three interrelated
fronts, all of which have the potential to backfire, and blow
up in their faces.

For one, Blair himself, in his Feb. 15 speech to the spring Labour
conference in Glasgow, suddenly "shifted the goalposts", and
changed the official British government policy, for why it thinks war
with Iraq is necessary. Until now, as proclaimed in a number of
dubious British government dossiers, Iraq's guilt was that it
possessed weapons of mass destruction that could be handed over
to terrorist groups, and that it was deceptively concealing this "fact".
But on Feb. 15, Blair insisted that "humanity would be better off"
without Saddam Hussein, and that this was a fundamental moral
issue. This was the first official endorsement, by Blair, of the
Bush Administration's "regime change in Iraq" agenda.

Linked to this, is the point stressed to EIR by a number of
informed British strategists, and by commentaries in the British
press: Blair is desperate for war, as soon as possible, and for
that war to be devastating, short, and effective, so that he can
neutralize his millions of British detractors, with the sneer,
"I was right all along, and you were wrong." Of course, this is
an enormously high-risk strategy, as well as being disgusting,
morally, and homicidal, in terms of what war would unleash,
in Iraq, among its neighbors, and globally.

The third prong of the Blair counter-strategy, is to tar his
enemies, with having "blood on their hands", for "supporting
Saddam", and, more crudely, as "stooges of Saddam".
This propaganda campaign is receiving giant support from
the neo-conservative press owned by Rupert Murdoch (Times,
Sunday Times, Sun) and Lord Conrad Black's Hollinger
Corporation (Spectator magazine, Daily Telegraph,
Sunday Telegraph), as well as from a handful of "liberal
imperialist" leftist commentators.

An egregiously blatant example of this, was provided by
the Times' Maniac-in-Chief, Lord William Rees-Mogg, who
headlined his weekly column Feb. 17, on the subject of the
Feb. 15 mass demonstrations: "In All Honesty, They Were
Still Saddam's Useful Idiots." He ranted: "I respect the good
intentions of those who marched on Saturday. Unfortunately,
the road to hell is paved with good intentions."

Rees-Mogg and his ilk were roasted, in the same Feb. 17 Times,
by one of Britain's most respected military strategists, Sir Timothy
Garden. Currently at the Department of Defence Studies, King's
College, London, Garden was formerly Commandant of the Royal
College of Defence Studies, and later director of the Royal
Institute of International Affairs ("Chatham House").

He asserted: "The rush to war in Iraq gives an opportunity
for every merchant of spin to stir the pot. Plagiarised academic
writings are attributed to impeccable intelligence sources.
International terrorism, local dissidents and tinpot dictators
are linked with nuclear weapons by inadequate commas. Old
inspectors' reports are rehashed to sound like new discoveries
of Iraqi deception. But the real sign of desperation is when the
war advocates start calling their critics appeasers."

Garden acknowledged, that there are certainly likenesses between
Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler, but the comparisons quickly can
be reduced to meaninglessness. Hitler had vast military potential,
and there are real lessons to be learned, about the dangers of
having appeased him. But Iraq's military infrastructure has been
significantly destroyed and dismantled, and there has been a
"successful mixture of containment and deterrence" in dealing with
him, so it is absurd to accuse France and Germany of appeasement
if they delay precipitate use of military force against him.
 

He concluded:
"The contrast between pre-war Germany and Iraq could
scarcely be more stark. In Iraq, we face a Third World country
that has been declining in military strength since we stopped
supporting its regional power strategy....With no threat to
Europe, America, or even to Iraq's neighbors, war seems
a very odd choice."

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