["Ranks of clergy and even Blair's own supporters are lined up against him but few analysts expect the prime minister to stand on the sidelines if the United States attacks.]

["Gerald Kaufman, a veteran and traditionally loyal lawmaker in Blair's Labour Party, warned him not to follow that course.]

["'There is substantial resistance in the Parliamentary Labour Party against war on Iraq, not just from the usual suspects,' he wrote in the Spectator magazine on Thursday.]

["The former Labour foreign policy spokesman also launched a savage attack on Bush and his advisers, including Rice.]

["'Bush, himself the most intellectually backward American president of my political lifetime, is surrounded by advisers whose bellicosity is exceeded only by their political, military and diplomatic illiteracy,' he wrote."]