gn if Bush and Blair attack Iraq without an express UN mandate. Short clearly believes that Bush/Blair are resigned to rejection by the UN and have decided to start illegal attacks on Iraq as soon as possible, before opposition has time to build further. There is no longer a rush to war, there is a race to war. The BBC reports that US/UK raids on Iraq are up to 500 sorties per night.

This resignation threat in itself could be shrugged off by Blair's dwindling band of allies, but the tone of Short's criticism makes a move to depose Blair inevitable. The British political world has not seen such a scathing attack on a Prime Minister by a cabinet colleague since Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe condemned Margaret Thatcher in 1990. Within weeks Thatcher was out of power.

Short was scathing of Blair's `recklessness` which she described as `very surprising`. In case there could be any doubt as to her planned resignation, Short made it a condition of her support that there should be not only UN approval for the planned attack, but also that there should be a UN refugee plan in place, an issue which so far pro-Blair UK media whores have barely mentioned.

In contrast to ex-cabinet minister Chris Smith, who led the massive rebellion against Blair in the House of Commons two weeks ago, Short is adopting a tone of contempt for Blair, making it clear that she sees him as an emotionally immature liar.

Unable to breach Cabinet secrecy openly, Short gave a clue to the Bush/Blair war strategy by stating that Blair was telling the cabinet one thing while his spin doctors (Bilderberg plotter Peter Mandelson and reformed alcoholic Alaistair Campbell) are telling the world something quite different.

Short's intention to resign is not the only indication that Blair's days are numbered. The New Statesman, the house magazine for Labour intellectuals, recently carried a readers poll splitting 80 to 20 against Blair. The current issue has devastating articles by moderate opinion-former David Marquand, saying that Blair has played Rumsfeld's game to destroy Europe "in a remarkably juvenile and clumsy way" and intellectual John Gray explaining that US power is overstated and the rest of the world is likely to keep on saying no to Bush/Blair's plans. Even in the staunchly pro-war Observer influential columnist Andrew Rawnsley drew a shocking picture of Blair personally, portraying him as isolated, plagued by flu, desperately short of sleep, and unable to stop obsessive meddling in irrelevant government business. The implication was that Blair is headed for a breakdown.

Meanwhile in the US opinion is similarly settled against war in defiance of the UN, but with the tv networks still loyal to the Bush Junta and corrupt Senators controlled by pro-war slush funds, attention is shifting to the financial markets where it is feared that the US cannot finance the war on its own. Even looted Iraqi oil will not be on a scale to staunch the flood of dollars needed to pay for the US trade deficit, conquer Iraq and as Tony Blair puts it "deal with" North Korea and Iran.

Financial markets are more concened with the truth than politicians and the media whores, and they have noticed that the world may refuse to accept trillions of freshly printed dollars at face value, especially with Euros underpinned by real wealth and oil producers starting to accept them. The last time the world was confronted by a bankrupt country armed to the teeth? Yes, it was nazi Germany. And the country which helped them to invade Czechoslovakia for its wealth? Britain, of course. Plus ca change...

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From Ian Henshall, chair of INK and proprietor of The Tea and Coffee Plant. INK is the umbrella trade organisation for the UK alternative press. Newsletters, email to inkchair@pro-net.co.uk

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