Does that make the pro-invasion people anti-French, anti-German, anti-Russian, anti-Chinese ???
Credit is due to US/Russian/UK war efforts in WWII etc. where up until their action nobody was prepared or able to stop Hitlers relentless invasions and concentrations camps.
But up to now the US/UK invasion of Iraq is based on lies and no evidence worthy of starting a war.
Even Enda Kenny, Leader of the Fine Gael party had to defend himself from being called antiAmerican for his stance on Shannon www.clarefm.ie
Judging by the mass antiwar protests in the US there could be >50% of US citizens who are anti-war. There was no US referendum before the war, and CNN / Economist polls have been shown not to be trushworthy. Based on the bombardment on US citizens by the WMD lie and the Iraqi sponsored terrorism lie on CNN etc, they were not aware of the truth as exposed by Hans Blix and the UN when the decision was made in 2002 to start the war.
Of course you're going to be prowar if you believe that Saddam is going to fire nuclear missiles at you in 45 minutes, or is funding terrorism. But it has been shown that those beliefs were false.
Every single US based multinational would move to the UK or Spain if their location was based on how many soldiers we submitted to the war.
Ali Ismail Abbas, 12, wounded during an airstrike according to hospital sources, lies in a hospital bed in Baghdad, April 6, 2003. Abbas was fast asleep when war shattered his life. A missile obliterated his home and most of his family, leaving him orphaned, badly burned and blowing off both his arms. 'It was midnight when the missile fell on us. My father, my mother and my brother died. My mother was five months pregnant,' the traumatized boy told Reuters at Baghdad's Kindi hospital. 'Our neighbors pulled me out and brought me here. I was unconscious,' he said on Sunday. REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber
Note: This is not the work of terrorists nor Saddam Hussein. This is the work of the US department of defence, acting on behalf of George Bush Jnr, acting on behalf of all the citizens of the US who democratically elected him as their representative to the rest of the world.
This war will never be over for Ali. His parents nor arms will not be coming back. Are you suitably "Shocked and awed" by General Sanchez and his colleagues? Has he won your "hearts and minds"? How far should George Bush Jnr be allowed to go in his quest to rid Iraq of WMD (and take their oil) ? Has George Bush Jnr suitably disarmed Ali ? Did the CIA / FBI / Dept of homeland security "know" that there was a WMD cache beneath his house? Did the bomb that did this go through Shannon with full FF/PD approval ? Does anyone expect there to be a trial ? Was the bomber pilot high on "stay awake" drugs as John Simpson suggested in a separate "friendly bombing" incident (see Timeline) ? Does the bomber pilot even know he did this ? Bear in mind that he's one of the lucky ones, not one of the 10,000+ civilians or 40,000+ ? conscript soldiers killed by the US war machine.
Nada Adnan, 13 years old and a student at high school for girls, states:
"I wish that God would take Bush. Why did he do this to us? to me?"
She has an open gash on the left of her head which is also fractured. Shrapnel has cut into her upper left thigh. There are no drugs for relief so aides press guaze into her leg wound.
Front line crossfire ripped apart an Iraqi family on Saturday, March 29 2003.This four-year old girl was screaming for her dead mother, who was killed in a crossfire. She is being treated by US Marines. Local soldiers appeared to force civilians towards US marines positions. Her father was shot in the leg and begged to be freed from the plastic handcuffs put on him by US marines so that he could hug his daughter.
Reuters - Damir Sagolj