British - Journalist | July 12, 1946 -
The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.
Robert Fisk
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The Middle East is a land of great injustice. The Israelis can claim - or wish to, at least - that Lord Balfour's Declaration of 1917 promised Britain support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, which didn't just mean the left-hand bit that became Israel.
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We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.
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There is nothing so satisfying as to be shot at without effect.
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William Dalrymple called me a war junkie in his silly book. No, I don't have a desire for it. I'm appalled and infuriated by it.
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American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going to be a good thing.
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