[IP] Logic has got lost in Iraq

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Andy Duff <andy.duff@edengene.com>
Date: September 30, 2004 11:38:45 AM EDT
To: "David Farber (E-mail)" <dave@farber.net>
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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