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Still Blair's Party

By D.D. Guttenplan

This article appeared in the October 25, 2004 edition of The Nation.

October 7, 2004

Brighton, England

The first thing I saw when I walked through the labyrinth of security checkpoints at the annual Labour Party Conference here was a young man in a black CBGBs T-shirt and baggy jeans on a big video screen talking about Iraq. By the time I reached the main floor he was just coming through the doorway. "Weren't you just speaking in the debate about the war?" I asked. "Which side were you on?"

"Supporting the reconstruction of Iraq," he said.

"What about the motion to set a date for withdrawal?"

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About D.D. Guttenplan

D.D. Guttenplan, who writes from The Nation's London bureau, is the author of The Holocaust on Trial (Norton). more...

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