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[IP] Logic has got lost in Iraq





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From: Andy Duff <andy.duff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 30, 2004 11:38:45 AM EDT
To: "David Farber (E-mail)" <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Logic has got lost in Iraq

Dave

For IP if you wish.

Anatole Kaletsky is a respected commentator on economic matters in the London Times. He rarely strays into politics.

Which makes his hard-hitting article in today's London Times on Tony Blair's speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday all the more interesting. You can find it at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-1286708,00.html

Excerpt -

<<...In sum, Mr Blair, seems to have convinced himself that Iraq and Afghanistan are effectively one country and that al-Qaeda, the Taleban and Saddam Hussein are all the same. Britain's chattering classes haughtily patronise the 60 per cent of American voters who apparently believe that Saddam was behind 9/11. Yet in Britain we now have a Prime Minister whose whole Middle Eastern strategy rests on this same fiction, and whose analysis of global terrorism is so illogical that it makes President Bush sound like Socrates.>>

Andy Duff

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