From UK Watch:
On 15th February 2003, some two million people gathered in London to demonstrate against the imminent attack on Iraq. I remember speaking to a neighbour who told me proudly that he was going on the march – his
first ever protest march – because he was damned if he was going to let Tony Blair endanger his children’s lives by making London a prime target for attack.
Not sure what else to say at the moment. It's been a strange day.
However, as I saw elsewhere today, we would all do well to remember that this would be just another daily occurrence in Bahgdad.
I'm off from work now - the streets are filling up, apparently, as those that made it in start to walk home...
Update: Home safely. I walked home with David, had dinner there and watched the news, and then caught the bus home, as bus services seem to back to normal now.
Update: Very scary stuff. I'm really going to go to bed now...
Update: One last update on this topic, thanks to Bruce Schneier, who, as is often the case, is a voice of reason when it comes to security issues:
I would also like to urge everyone not to get wrapped up in the particulars of the terrorist tactics. We need to resist the
urge to react against the particulars of this particular terrorist plot, and to keep focused on the terrorists' goals. Spending billions to defend our trains and buses at the expense of other counterterrorist measures makes no sense. Terrorists are out to cause terror, and they don't care if they bomb trains, buses, shopping malls, theaters,
stadiums, schools, markets, restaurants, discos, or any other collection of 100-plus people in a small space. There are simply too many targets to defend, and we need to think more intelligently than simply protecting the particular targets the terrorists attacked last week.
Smart counterterrorism focuses on the terrorists and their funding -- stopping plots regardless of their targets -- and emergency response that limits their damage.
