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    Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.

    So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.

    Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

    I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

    I will not uphold a breach of international law or this undermining of the U.N. and will resign from the government.


    There is no doubt there is an Iraq effect and the Liberal Democrats are rising on that.

    The US was pressing Chile, Mexico - enormous pressures were brought to bear. What's remarkable is that these countries didn't break.

    We remain concerned that refugees in Macedonia are being forced onto planes and buses. This is unacceptable. We understand Macedonian concerns and will provide support to Macedonia, provided it complies with international rights and norms in its treatment of refugees.

    It's very ugly. We're spending a lot more, we're getting rich people to fund it, and it is corroding our political system.

    I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.

    You might not think it to read the coverage in the British media, but this woman is some kind of hero in the poorest regions of the world. People in the Foreign Office used to laugh at the international development department. Now its work is seen as integral to British international standing.

    I mean the UK in this time was also getting - spying on Kofi Annan's office and getting reports from him about what was going on.

    And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.

    Where Tony Blair is, is propping up Bush in the continuation of oppression and injustice in the Middle East that is feeding the anger of the world.

    Reckless with our governmentreckless with his own future, position and place in history.

    The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?

    That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.

    We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

    It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola,

    I have set out to change the language of the international system.

    But we had the Birmingham pub bombings in which 20 something people died and I know obviously this is worse but 20 is a big number.

    The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.

    But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.

    Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.

    I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.

    Yes but the tragedy is Iraq is a disastrous mess 10,000 Iraqis have died, American troops are dying, some of our troops have died.

    For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.

    I am very gloomy about the Middle East.

    There are thousands and thousands of people on the other side of the border, not being fed, babies are being born, people are becoming sick,

    One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.

    The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.

    I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

    People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.

    But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

    And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know.


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