Will 'Bush's Vietnam' prove to be Blair's Waterloo?

By Michael White
THE GUARDIAN , LONDON
Tuesday, Apr 13, 2004,Page 9

When US Senator Edward Kennedy warned this week that the crisis in Iraq may be turning into "George Bush's Vietnam" he sent a shudder down the spines of Americans for whom a defeat and 55,000 US deaths remain a national trauma.

As British Prime Minister Tony Blair heads for New York and Washington this week -- amid stern declarations of unflinching solidarity with US President George W. Bush in Iraq -- a similar challenge faces him.

So far Blair has been lucky in the timing of the latest surge of fighting. Now on holiday, the prime minister might have been expected to speak out as the conflict flared inside Iraq. But parliament is in recess until next Monday, giving him breathing space to assess the position and reshape policy.

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Will Britain's policy change for the better or worse?

Should we want the Conservatives to win in Britain?

the main difference being that 95% of Blairs party are anti-war and probably only 35-50% of the Conservative party are against the war.
Britains third party, the centrist Liberal Democrats are the party to support - anti war as policy. Forget the name, they are liberal in the true sense of the word, anti authoritarian and locally based. They usually receive between 20-25% of the votes at General Elections, but because they come second in so many places to either Labour or Conservative, they only take about 10% of the seats in Parliament. I'll be voting for them, but don't hold out much hope - it's Blair all the way. It's seen as Bush's war not Blairs war.