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God in human form? As Keanu Reeves would say ... whoa.
Be he god or man, it was very nice to read Saddam's side of the story (assuming it all really happened and was relatively uncensored etc etc) for the first time in ooh ... ages. In fact, I couldn't help coming to the conclusion that, taking all the rhetoric at face value it's far more tempting to take Saddam's side in this whole sorry episode. Not that we can afford to take it at face value, obviously, but I'm trying not to let my prejudices against Bush get the better of me and to give everybody the benefit of the doubt.
In any case, I'm just glad somebody's made the effort to go and do this. Tony Benn's always struck me as someone who sticks to his guns - let me rephrase that, sticks to what he says, and his trip to Iraq seems like an act of supreme fair-mindedness. |
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