Friends Stab You In The Front: Iraq Without Britain

I don't think that opposing the war is going to be a bad decision. It's one thing for people to support a bloody insurgency war when we're already in it; that can easily come across as patriotism. Supporting joining a bloody insurgency war when we're not in it and we have no obligation to join it doesn't come across as patriotic; it just comes across as silly. It's not as if there was a huge movement for us to leap into Vietnam out of solidarity with the Americans once we were sensible enough to stay out and it became clear what sort of conflict it was.

Brown may well fall (though I confess to blatant bias in hoping that he won't) but I don't think that opposition to the war will do it.

Sure, these anti-American and anti-capitalist displays may well put off voters on the right, but the sort of voters who'll oppose them are the sort of voters whom one would expect to vote Conservative anyway. Let Conservatives vote Conservative. They already do!
 
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