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View Article  Wing Commander Lewis, then of 30 Squadron (RAF), Iraq 1920's
Quite often,

"One would get a signal that a certain Kurdish village would have to be bombed..."
View Article  Winston Churchill, as colonial secretary of Palestine, writing to Sir Hugh Trenchard, on 19 February, 1920
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."
View Article  Winston Churchill on displacing indigenous peoples, in 1937 to the Palestine Royal Commission, usually known as the Peel Commission.
"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,"
View Article  Sydney Morning Herald, 16th October
'MAp Airports says it has completed the internalisation of its management, with several senior management changes.'
View Article  By Kevin Rudd, current Australian Prime Minister
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'.