Mc of H you do write some bs, "And Britain was a consistently expansionist imperial power when the opportunity was there. But by the summer of 1940 it was very much the weaker party in the fight with Germany".

Why distort the truth to make your point,if you have to resort to that is your point worth making.

Two wrongs do not make a right, if chem warfare was advocated in the 1920's,and the nuclear/chem warfare threatened by the US in the 50's, does not warrant the use of such WMD's now by Saddam. Is your argument based on "if we use it they can"?

Churchill spoke the truth on many issues,at the end of ww2 he lobbied to fight on and take Russia, if that advice was taken the cold war would not have happened.