The US has lost the war

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 1:33 AM +0000 3/11/03, Carl Remick wrote:
>Whatever happens in a military sense in Iraq, the US has already 
>lost the war that really matters, the struggle for domination of 
>world opinion.  France and Russia stand ready to deliver their 
>vetoes; Kofi Annan has denounced the US for undermining the UN 
>charter -- never have I seen such censure of the US.

*****   ...[A]n opinion poll suggested most Germans now expect an 
Iraq war. Some 85 per cent of those questioned in a Forsa poll in 
early March said they expected the US to attack Baghdad. The same 
proportion remains opposed to an Iraq war, the poll found.

In addition, 53 per cent of those questioned would support political 
or economic sanctions against the US if Washington went to war with 
Iraq without UN support, although the German government has not 
proposed the application of such sanctions....

<http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1045511486859> 
*****

It's just an opinion poll, but now the majority of Germans polled say 
that they would "support political or economic sanctions against the 
US."  That's a strong statement.
-- 
Yoshie

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