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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Perhaps because it was easier to put it the way she did than name the individuals in saddam's regime who are also being tried, along with their individual charges?
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Right, so now we're agreed it's
not specifically
"therein a specific reference to Saddam and therefore the crimes he has been accused of" but a select (undetermined and unnamed by Mrs Beckett) grouping?
I'll save the writing to her for a while yet - she seems to be having trouble enough with her spoken english without me compounding her misery.;-)
Punky, there's no harm in wading in at all. I'm merely contending, based on the facts available to me, that this "faux pas", if indeed that is all that it is / was, is causing some very considerable consternation and worry among troops and contractors currently serving in Iraq.
I'm away.