Posted on 09/24/2002 4:51:19 AM PDT by FlameThrower
From the Independent, 9/23/02, the 2002 Winner for Childish Naivete (in these times and in a Cabinet Minister, Criminal Stupidity):
"Clare Short, the Secretary of State for International Development, became the second cabinet minister yesterday to make public their fears that Britain is being dragged into US-led strikes on Baghdad....
"She said: 'We cannot have another Gulf war. We cannot have the people of Iraq suffering again. They have suffered too much. That would be wrong. We have to find a way of enforcing, quite rightly, UN resolutions. Saddam Hussein should be frightened, and the élite around him. We should frighten them. We should be ready to impose the will of the United Nations on them if they don't co-operate but not by hurting the people of Iraq. Each one of them is as precious as the 3,000 people in the twin towers. We can't sacrifice them to putting it right.'
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