i think most americans say no to war right now. why cant this saddam just make a deal and vanish and prevent bloodshed? he is single handedly making bush look like a leader of some sort! if saddam wasn't around, we can finish the work in pakistan-afghanistan and concentrate on football!
Nobel laureates denounce a US attack on Iraq](News – latest in science and technology | New Scientist) New Scientist 29 Jan 03
Forty-two US Nobel Prize winners have signed a declaration denouncing any unilateral, pre-emptive strike by the US against Iraq.
The statement was announced on the day of President George W Bush’s annual State of the Nation address. In his speech, Bush pressed the case for military action to remove the weapons of mass destruction the US says Iraq holds.
Although the United Nations resolution passed in November places the onus on Iraq to prove they do not have banned weapons, some of the signatories say they are not ready to accept this. “I am not in favour of entering a war without decisive evidence that weapons of mass destruction are in the hands of the Iraqis,” says signatory and particle physicist Sheldon Lee Glashow, of Boston University in Massachusetts. The declaration admits the likelihood of a “swift victory” in the event of war, but says that without broader support, “the consequences of an American preventive attack on Iraq would undermine, not protect, US security”.
Nuclear Scientists
Chemist Walter Kohn of the University of California at Santa Barbara wrote and circulated the declaration. Kohn is a former adviser to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Other signatories include physicists behind the nuclear research that ended the Second World War. Hans Bethe was an atom bomb designer and Norman Ramsey was part of the Manhattan project to build an atom bomb.
“We are a group of bright people who have had very relevant experiences,” argues Kohn. "We hope to contribute to the sharpness of the discussion."Six Nobel laureates refused to sign the declaration. Kohn says their reasons were a lack of faith in the UN, a desire to avoid mixing science with politics and a fear of appeasing Iraq.
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Polls show European public opposed to Iraq war](Clarifying the Complex | Homepage | Thomson Reuters) Reuters 30 Jan 03
BRITAIN A YouGov poll for the Sunday Times on January 26 showed 68 percent of people thought Prime Minister Tony Blair had failed to convince them of the need for war with Iraq.
FRANCE A CSA Institute poll published on January 23 showed 73 percent of French people were against a U.S.-led attack on Iraq, up from 66 percent in a similar poll two weeks earlier.
GERMANY An opinion poll by Germany’s Forsa institute published a week ago found 69 percent of Germans wanted the country to vote against any U.N. resolution mandating war against Iraq. An Emnid poll in Der Spiegel news magazine showed 72 percent of Germans were against their troops joining any war.
SPAIN A January poll by right-of-centre newspaper El Mundo found 80 percent of Spaniards opposed the U.S. stance towards war in Iraq while another by a radio station in the same month showed only 6.6 percent thought there were reasons to go to war. No official poll has been carried out since September, when two thirds of Spaniards opposed a war.
ITALY A poll by Swg published on January 29 showed 72.7 percent of Italians disagreed with a U.S.-led preventative war against Iraq while 18.8 percent said they would support such action.
DENMARK A Vilstrup Research poll published on January 25 showed 79 percent of Danes would oppose a U.S.-led war without a U.N. mandate while 57 percent would still oppose a war if there was a U.N. mandate.
CZECH REPUBLIC A poll by the publicly-funded CVVM agency in the Czech Republic on Thursday showed 67 percent were against a war with Iraq and 24 percent of respondents were in favour. The support total falls to 13 percent without a second U.N. resolution while the percentage against the war rises to 76 percent.
HUNGARY A Gallup poll published on January 27 showed 82 percent of Hungarians opposed military action under any circumstances. The remaining 18 percent said they would support a war but of those, two thirds said that support would be conditional on U.N. approval.
POLAND A TNS-OBOP survey showed 63 percent of Poles opposed sending troops to join any action against Iraq but 52 percent thought the country should give political backing to the United States for any such action.
PORTUGAL No official polls were available but an informal survey by Diario Digital showed opinion running almost two to one against Portugal supporting any U.S.-led action.