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Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Yet Another ‘Bush Was Right’ Column

I see that even The Guardian has a “holy Hell, he was right” article. Penned by Jonathan Freedland, that paper’s shrinking-violet-in-chief, the editorial says:

Tony Blair is not gloating…But if he had wanted to brag and claim credit - boasting that the toppling of Saddam Hussein had set off a benign chain reaction - he would have had plenty of evidence to call on…

This leaves opponents of the Iraq war in a tricky position, even if the PM is not about to rub our faces in the fact. Not only did we set our face against a military adventure which seems, even if indirectly, to have triggered a series of potentially welcome side effects; we also stood against the wider world-view that George Bush represented. What should we say now?

First, we ought to admit that the dark cloud of the Iraq war may have carried a silver lining…

Second, we have to say that the call for freedom throughout the Arab and Muslim world is a sound and just one…

(…via RLS)

Posted on March 2, 2005 03:02 PM. Permalink