People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.
From Clare Short
We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.
That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.
So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.
Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.
Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.
The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.
The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?
The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.
I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.
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