I have to disagree with you. Surely, you don't oppose Military Families against the War trying to get support in the courts for a public inquiry into the case for going to war? I think that if Blair was impeached it would surely be a victory for the anti-war movement, but if we are brutally honest the campaign has been failure, there is no chance of Blair being impeached. The supporters of the campaign could have used it as a good publicity stunt to publicise Blair's war crimes - in a similar manner to the Russell-Sartre International War Crimes Tribunal, but it looks like Adam Price MP was more locked into the game of trying to get support from other politicians rather than building mass public meeetings across the UK.
Niclas is a joker when he claims that Plaid are anti-imperialist. They seriously wobbled over opposing the occupation of Iraq. In the 2003 Assembly elections they took the safe option of "don't mention the war", because their had recently been a surge of support in the early weeks of the occupation. This is quite typical of reformist parties who are prepared to sell out an occupied people if it will gain them votes.
I remember an article in 2003/4 in Heddwch (magazine of CND Cymru) where the deputy leader of Plaid, Jill Evans MEP wrote: "we can't just walk away". A slightly stupid statement as the imperialist occupiers of that country have no intention of walking away until they set-up a pro-western client state that will let them fleece the natural resources of Iraq or are driven out by the resistance.
But more fundamentally, Plaid's position of the occupation of Iraq is fundamentally misguided and blatantly not anti-imperialist. They don't call for all foreign troops to leave Iraq, they actually call for foreign troops to be sent to Iraq!
Plaid want to pull out US/UK troops and replace them with Muslim troops. They seem to forget that the Americans have already used Muslim Iraqi troops to massacre and crush uprisings in Fallujah, Mosul and elsewhere.
Leaving aside, the question of whether any Muslim country would want to send troops to Iraq. Where would these Muslim troops come from? Iran, Syria, Lebanon or Palestine? Of course not, these countries are not client-states of the US. The US would insist that they came from the regimes that they prop-up. I'm sure that Muslim Turkey would love to send troops into Iraqi Kurdistan!
Plaid also now talk of neutral UN troops. It is clear that things have moved beyond the stage where changing the colour of the helmets would help things and I can guarantee that the UN will have as much success in Iraq as NATO in Afghanistan.
Imagine a situation where the US was being forced to withdraw, how would they continue to dominate Iraq? They would go for the UN figleaf. American troops are getting seriously bogged down in Iraq, they might well soon hope to be bailed out by UN troops. The idea that UN troops in Iraq would be independent of the foreign-policy objectives of the United States is naive.
Plaid's support of a UN occupation also fails to look at the evidence of other countries where the UN have stepped in, such as Kosovo, Bosnia, Haiti
In Kosovo, Imperialist Viceroy, Paddy Ashdown is a dictator who can sack democratically elected governments and there have been demonstrations against the UN. In Kosovo, under the UN dictatorship, UN forces and their paid surrogates have been running a mini-Guantanamo. In the Congo, UN troops are involved in sex-trafficking. In a country like Iraq where nationalist sentiment is far higher, a UN occupation would prolong the agony of the Iraqi people.
