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Originally Posted by Simon Rochelle
All very true. I guess its just upsetting when people bring there wars to your doorstep.
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And even more so when it *is* "our war"...
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Hell, we were slaughtering people in foreign lands at the turn of the centurary even, when we looked on ourselves as more superiour. I guess that feeling still exists today, however, Britian has never bred terrorists or engaged in acts of terrorism (i know, possibly not a true statement, as our goverment is the most secrative in the world). But we have always fought our wars as gentlemen and not crept in the shadows blowing ourselves up around civilians.
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Would a "gentleman" suggest using chemical weapons against "turbulent tribes"?
http://www.againstbombing.org/chemical.htm
"On 19 February, 1920, before the start of the Arab uprising, Churchill (then Secretary for War and Air) wrote to Sir Hugh Trenchard, the pioneer of air warfare. Would it be possible for Trenchard to take control of Iraq? This would entail 'the provision of some kind of asphyxiating bombs calculated to cause disablement of some kind but not death...for use in preliminary operations against turbulent tribes.'
"Churchill was in no doubt that gas could be profitably employed against the Kurds and Iraqis (as well as against other peoples in the Empire): 'I do not understand this sqeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poison gas against uncivilised tribes.'"