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Old 9th Aug 2006, 17:49
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Why not go to "Condef 1" or whatever anytime Bush has a bowel movement?
I don't suppose that would make much difference to the pathetic remnants of our strategic forces. Why not send our man in Tehran around to tell to the current Ayatolah i/c that any WMD outrage on 22 Aug (or indeed any other day) will result in the obliteration of the following list of cities/shrines: Tehran, Mecca.... That's about what the Soviet ambo did in 1978.

More seriously, the Brit intelligence community used to maintain some sort of credibilty by acting as referee between the various warring factions among their US colleagues. I fear this was destroyed by various chiefs of our intel agencies allowing themselves and their organisations to be corrupted politically during the lead-in to Gulf 2.

If intel is to regain any sort of credibility, an international agency of "wise men" is needed to moderate the various agencies.
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