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We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.

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And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know.

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I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

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And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.

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But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.

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Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

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I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.

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I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

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I have set out to change the language of the international system.

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I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.

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So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.

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We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

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Of course we need action, but it should be Just action.

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But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

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The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.

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The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.

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