"It is just Tony Blair and George Bush against the rest of the world. None of the public want this, Mr Blair is acting against our will."

"We are a peaceful movement. We are not here to cause a riot, but we don't think children are listened to."

Posted by: Mac - Dont Attack Iraq on March 19, 2003 03:29 PM

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"The US doesn't want war just to remove Saddam Hussein. It wants to show that it can use its military power to impose its will anywhere in the world. The easier the US finds that in Iraq the more likely it will go on to use military power elsewhere. Bush already has a list of possible targets-Iran, North Korea, Syria, Libya, Cuba.

The US has already meddled with attempted coups against the elected government of Venezuela in South America. And the US backs the right wing government in a civil war in neighbouring Colombia.

A quick victory in Iraq will make war more likely in these areas. It would also mean the US would push even harder to impose its interests and those of the corporations that back it across the globe.

There would be even more savage IMF austerity programmes to suck wealth out of indebted countries.

Multinational drugs companies would be more determined to deny AIDS treatments to the poorest countries of the world.

US power would also swing even harder behind regimes such as Israel, so bringing more suffering to the Palestinian people.

Everywhere there would be the spectre of an emboldened US military in the wings to ensure no government dared cross the US.

Of course, even the mightiest empire is not immune from mass revolts which can humble it."

From Socialist Worker this week.

Posted by: Mac - Dont Attack Iraq on March 19, 2003 03:51 PM

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you got politics in my usability!

you got usability in my poitics!

*pause*

eww, this tastes like shit

Posted by: Mick on March 19, 2003 06:02 PM

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::yawn:: What's the matter, don't have your own website to spew forth this stuff? Ya gotta clutter up this site? There are hundreds, ney, thousands, of sites I can read this shit. Mr. Rhodes, are you letting your (otherwise excellent) usability site be hijacked?

Posted by: John Bedard on March 19, 2003 06:35 PM

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This is a pertinent issue. Begin asking yourself what good a usability engineer is during a world war. Most WebWorders live in a country that practically taunts terrorists to attack because of the country's imperialist behavior.

Mac, weren't there any bodacious babes at the protest demonstrating in the same manner as that child?

Posted by: Jimbo on March 20, 2003 09:46 AM

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Mac goes on vacation and doesn't share a single pyramid photo. What, you want us to watch The Learning Channel or the Discovery Channel or the Travel Channel or the History Channel instead? Come on, give us a break.

Posted by: Neferirkare Kakai on March 20, 2003 06:44 PM

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Wil cuts to the chase. "I believe that Mr. Bush's justifications for it are based on lies."

There. It's said. We don't support this war because we don't trust the people bringing it to us.

Posted by: Wik on March 21, 2003 01:32 AM

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RE: Holiday Snaps

This is a taxi driver we met in Egypt last week. He will now be without a job, and many ordinary people in Egypt now have no way of earning a living because the tourist industry will be practically destroyed.

He was not anti-western at all, but I wonder if he will feel the same way in six months?

Posted by: Mac - Dont Attack Iraq on March 21, 2003 11:47 AM

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By the wave upon wave of anti-war speech, you're (perhaps unintentionally, perhaps not) now being perceived as anti-West.

Posted by: boysen on March 25, 2003 02:45 PM

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