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Old 29th May 2006, 12:06
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Maple 01

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With hindsight, do you think we should have invaded Iraq??
Yep, I also think we should have kept going in 1991 but then I have a problem with dictators. Did we stop on the Rhine in '45? 'Oh that Hitler was a one, but he's leader of a sovereign state so we mustn’t upset him?'

Do you want Saddam back in power?

If not how were you planning to topple him?

Going over old ground I fear, but assuming you aren’t keen to see the reinstatement of the man responsible for about 400,000 Iraqi deaths and 300,000* Iranian you got the result you wanted but are just squeamish about how it was done

the media esp newspapers have been the only effective opposition
Not their function, they are there to report, not act as an unelected opposition. If elements of the BBC want to get directly involved in politics perhaps they should stand for election like everyone else?

Now, fancy condemning the BBC for their reporting on the desertion story?

*Higher figures are out there, as are lower, who rearly knows, just put 'lots' we'll know what you mean
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