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Thursday, 6 February 2003

Iraq Crisis: Statements (Resumed).

 

I wish to comment now on to the war which is beginning to look more inevitable with each day that passes. The issue is not about stopping Hussein, but about how he will be stopped. There are ways of stopping him which represent too high a price to pay. I have recently returned from America, where I spent the first couple of weeks of the new year. When I talked to people there – I do not believe they were all Republicans but perhaps they were – I was struck by how many people said things like, "We have the power to wipe out Hussein and, therefore, we should use it." I have not heard those sort of words in recent times. In the simplest words, what they were saying was, "Might is right" and "We can do it, therefore, we have to".

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