{"id":2990,"date":"2008-03-11T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T16:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2008-03-11T10:22:30","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T16:22:30","slug":"numan-abd-al-wahid-the-poppycock-of-the-british-anti-war-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2990","title":{"rendered":"Nu&#8217;man Abd al-Wahid: The poppycock of the British anti-war movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Arab Media Watch member Nu&#8217;man Abd al-Wahid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabmediawatch.com\/amw\/Articles\/Analysis\/tabid\/75\/newsid395\/4626\/The-poppycock-of-the-British-anti-war-movement\/Default.aspx\"><strong>5 March 2008<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is commonplace in the literature of the British anti-war movement that Britain invaded Iraq with the US purely out of Tony Blair&#8217;s subservient attachment to George W. Bush. In the introduction to the official manual of the anti-war movement, &#8220;Stop War: The story of Britain&#8217;s biggest mass movement,&#8221; written by Andrew Murray and Lindsey German, the president of the movement and former Labour MP Tony Benn asserts that Britain was &#8220;taken&#8221; into the war &#8220;at the behest of President Bush and his neo-con apparatchiks\u2026&#8221; The chair of the movement goes on to state that Britain was &#8220;dragged&#8221; into this invasion &#8220;at the instigation&#8221; of the US. The evidence, as we shall see, simply does not exist for such assertions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabmediawatch.com\/amw\/Articles\/Analysis\/tabid\/75\/newsid395\/4626\/The-poppycock-of-the-British-anti-war-movement\/Default.aspx\">Read the analysis<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Arab Media Watch member Nu&#8217;man Abd al-Wahid 5 March 2008 It is commonplace in the literature of the British anti-war movement that Britain invaded Iraq with the US purely out of Tony Blair&#8217;s subservient attachment to George W. Bush. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2990\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Me","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}