"You guys GET OFF on WAR!"

Don't ever forget Maggie Thatcher. Or the ladies handing out White Feathers in the Great War.

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No doubt when Saddam gets put on trial - assuming he hasn't worked out some deal in advance that involves keeping schtum - he'll be saying very much the same stuff about Halabja, and that kind of thing, as has been said about Hiroshima. All about how it's the duty of a ruler in a time of war, and in the cause of holding his country together to do horrible things sometimes, in order to avert worse consequences. The high and lonely duty...

There's always an excuse to be dredged out. And often enough there's some truth in it. But...