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  • Little Englanders Get It Badly Wrong On Iraq (This time without a flame war, please)

    05/06/2005 10:01:33 AM PDT · by quidnunc · 90 replies · 1,772+ views
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | May 6, 2005 | William Shawcross
    Politics is all local, especially at election time. But the "Little Britain" manner in which Tony Blair's enemies have exploited Iraq before today's election is a real disgrace. In their extreme zeal to try and prove that "Blair lied," his critics amongst the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats — and all the left-of-center, fashionable bien-pensant writers, actors and intellectuals of London — resolutely turn their face against the realities of Iraq and of the Middle East itself. Listening to the tone of the debate, you would think that there were no Iraqis out there and that "Iraq" was merely...