Times' civil war
Matthew Parris asks, in reference to the growing noises from Washington that a pull-out of Iraq is to happen soon:
Well? I am waiting. A number of us are waiting. We were expecting an angry chorus from a particular quarter. So why the silence? You could hear a pin drop. Why don’t they sing out, the armchair warriors of Fleet Street? George W. Bush and his friends are preparing to scuttle Iraq, and nobody’s complaining...David Aaronovitch should be revisiting his liberal scruples in order to brush them manfully aside again and reach for the bayonet.
Aaro has a habit of annoying his colleagues. When he was with the GMG Polly Tonybee reminded him (and the world, to our shame) of his famous comment to the effect that if there no WMD in Iraq he would never believe another word said to him by the US or British governments (a policy that must have had Mrs Aaronovitch and the kids white with fear on a foggy motorway) and for that matter, neither would anyone else.
posted by Matthew @ 8/17/2005 07:40:00 AM
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