US vice-president Dick Cheney stepped up White House attacks on critics of the Iraq war this week. He declared that politicians who say Americans were sent into battle based on a lie are engaging in "revisionism of the most corrupt and shameless variety."
Reports have recently come out in the mainstream press about the use of white phosphorus by troops in Iraq. These reports aren’t new — just over a year ago they were coming out from human rights organisations and medics and journalists that white phosphorus, napalm and other agents were being used.
The International Peace Conference is now just weeks away. Delegations from around Britain are organising for what promises to be the largest ever gathering of anti-war activists from Britain, Iraq and the US.
The growth of the Military Families Against the War campaign in Britain is one sign of the growing pressure on Tony Blair over his part in the war on Iraq.
The International Peace Conference on Saturday 10 December will see delegates from Britain, Iraq and the US come together to organise the next steps for the international anti-war movement.
Two reports last week announced with great sound and fury that they had the "smoking gun" linking Respect MP George Galloway to the payroll of Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime.
