This is a good time to recall David Omissi¹s article in the Guardian in 1991 describing the British gas attacks on Iraqi Arabs in 1920 and Winston Churchill¹s 1932 attempt to drop gas bombs on the Kurds.
Carl Remick posted it to the list in October 2001, and it¹s even more pertinent today. <http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/0110/3308.html>
Chris
On 28/3/03 3:11 pm, "andie nachgeborenen" <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I forgot to quote Keir Hardie's rebutatl to the old imperialist slogan that
> "the sun never sets on the British Empire." "Yes," said Hardie, "and the blood
> never dries on it either." jks
>
> andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sure, they'e responsible for so many of them. Ask the Irish, the Indians,
>>> the Pakistanis, the Palestinians, the Jamaicans, the Sudanese, the
>>> Zibabweans, the Kenyans, the Ugandans, the Egyptians, hell, ask the
>>> Iraqis...
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