>>From: ravi <lbo at kreise.org>
>>
>>http://www.manoramaonline.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=manorama/MmArticle/CommonFullStory&cid=1121840470937&c=MmArticle&p=1002366458912&channel=Home&count=9
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>>PM says US invasion of Iraq a mistake
>>
>>Washington: In a candid submission made on the American soil, Prime
>>Minister Manmohan Singh said the 2003 US invasion of Iraq was a ''mistake''.
>>
>>Answering questions after his address at the National Press Club here,
>>he said, ''it was our sincere view that it (invasion of Iraq) was a
>>mistake ..."
>
>So far so good.
>
>>"... but it is now a thing of the past ..."
>
>However, that makes no sense at all.
My first thought was that there's something in the American air that made him say that. Do other English-speaking countries say "that's history!" to consign something to insignificance?
Doug