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Website lists candidate’s views on peace and war

-25/04/05

As the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives start the final full week of general election campaign by attacking Tony Blair over the invasion of Iraq, a new website has published the views of candidates on issues of war and peace.

The website Vote Against War, will be welcomed by Christians and others who take commitment to peace-making seriously.

It follows work by Christian groups to ‘make peace an election issue’.

The new web site suggests that if Tony Blair is returned to power, “he will be the real threat to our security.”

But it also proposes that “if Michael Howard gets in he will follow the same path.”

Vote Against Warlists candidates by constituency with information about their support for military action.

The site points to possible future military actions by the UK and others in 25 countries, including Iran, Syria, Sudan and China.

Appearing at Labour’s Monday press conference in London, the prime minister was clearly frustrated by repeated questions from journalists about Iraq.

Blair told journalists: “The advice was clear that the war was lawful. The attorney general set that out.

“The attorney general came to Cabinet, he was there, we had a discussion about it. You can go on forever trying to prove there is some conspiracy, some plot. There wasn’t, there was a judgement.

“The judgement might be right, it might be wrong, I had to take it. I believe I made the right judgement, I believe the world is better with Saddam in prison and not in power.

“There is no point going back over it again and again and again. At some point people are going to have accept that sometimes in politics you get a difficult decision you have to make. When you are sitting in the prime minister’s chair you’ve got to make the decision.

“That is my responsibility and I have to live with it. But when I look at Iraq today and hear the voices of Iraqi people I find it hard to say it was the wrong decision. All I ask you to do is let those voices speak, let them say the change was a good thing,” he added.