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Hoping for the worst
EFLToby Harnden is the Middle East correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. The other day, while taking a break by the Al-Hamra Hotel pool, fringed with the usual cast of tattooed defence contractors, I was accosted by an American magazine journalist of serious accomplishment and impeccable liberal credentials. ... But then she came to the point. Not only had she âknownâ the Iraq war would fail but she considered it essential that it did so because this would ensure that the âevilâ George W. Bush would no longer be running her country. Her editors back on the East Coast were giggling, she said, over what a disaster Iraq had turned out to be. âLots of us talk about how awful it would be if this worked out.â Startled by her candour, I asked whether thousands more dead Iraqis would be a good thing. SOBs The article requires registration, which is relatively painless. Posted by: mrp 2004-05-13 |
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