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Saturday, October 17
Wing-Commander Sir Arthur Harris (later Bomber Harris, head of wartime Bomber Command)
by
anthony bougatsas
on Sat 17 Oct 2009 09:59 PM BST
"The Arab and Kurd now know what real bombing means in casualties and damage. Within forty-five minutes a full-size village can be practically wiped out and a third of its inhabitants killed or injured."
Wing-Commander Sir Arthur Harris (later Bomber Harris, head of wartime Bomber Command)
by
anthony bougatsas
on Sat 17 Oct 2009 09:49 PM BST
"The Arab and Kurd now know what real bombing means in casualties and damage. Within forty-five minutes a full-size village can be practically wiped out and a third of its inhabitants killed or injured."
Wing Commander Lewis, then of 30 Squadron (RAF), Iraq 1920's
by
anthony bougatsas
on Sat 17 Oct 2009 09:46 PM BST
Quite often,
"One would get a signal that a certain Kurdish village would have to be bombed..."
Winston Churchill, as colonial secretary of Palestine, writing to Sir Hugh Trenchard, on 19 February, 1920
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anthony bougatsas
on Sat 17 Oct 2009 09:44 PM BST
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."
Winston Churchill on displacing indigenous peoples, in 1937 to the Palestine Royal Commission, usually known as the Peel Commission.
by
anthony bougatsas
on Sat 17 Oct 2009 09:36 PM BST
"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken
their place,"
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's take on murders in his city.
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anthony bougatsas
on Sat 17 Oct 2009 07:00 PM BST
'It's not good for us, but it keeps the New Orleans brand out there.'
By Kevin Rudd, current Australian Prime Minister
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anthony bougatsas
on Sat 17 Oct 2009 06:49 PM BST
While addressing German press and Chancellor Angela Merkel, Mr Rudd said it was unlikely any progress would emerge from the Major Economies Forum (MEF) 'by way of detailed programmatic specificity'.
Political Gobbledygook
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anthony bougatsas
on Sat 17 Oct 2009 06:42 PM BST
In the Guardian on Wednesday 14th the Treasury Spokespeople of the 3 major parties where asked several questions about the public service. On one question in particular the Conservative's George Osburne gave an answer which I have read several times and I still can't work out what he is saying.
When asked the following; "Will you give citizens a bigger say in running public services?", he responded, "We are committed to providing public services such as health and education free at the point of use, and to getting budgets into the hands of users of public services. This would allow those who use public services to drive priorities, and would ensure providers' professional responsibility was restored while services were also more accountable to users." Ah? Committed to providing..."point of use..", "drive priorities...". Heaven help us! |
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