War crimes charges add to Blair Iraq woes

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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15995144-38200,00.html

TONY Blair faced further pressure over the Iraq war yesterday as war crime charges were laid against three British soldiers and opinion polls confirmed that British voters believed the war has encouraged terrorism against Britain.

As his "coalition of the willing" ally John Howard arrived in Britain for official talks, the British Prime Minister was once again grappling with more acute political problems over Iraq than his Australian counterpart has faced.

Both men have been comfortably re-elected since the war began in 2003 but Mr Blair has faced more persistent domestic opposition to the war and a series of difficult inquiries and rebellions within his own Labour Party.

In the most serious allegations yet against British officers in Iraq, 11 soldiers have been charged by British army prosecutors over the deaths of two civilians detained in Basra in 2003.

[Cha]

1. I thought the "War Crimes" were

laid against tony.

[cosmik debris]

3. Give 'em time!

n/t

[WhiteTara]

5. I was hoping n/t

[Benhurst]

2. Why doesn't Labour just get on with it and

flush the bastard at their fall conclave? What's there about the term "war criminal" they don't understand?

[PartyPooper]

4. Every country in the world should shun Bush, Blair, and Howard!

Maybe then we could get some changes, eh?