Voice from the Commonwealth
Commentary, World Views and Occasional Rants from a small 'l' libertarian in Massachussetts

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams
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Friday, February 21, 2003

Jack Straw still applying pressure.

As the standoff enters its final phase my message today is in securing Iraq's disarmament we will remove the threat (Iraqi President) Saddam (Hussein) poses to his neighbours and to the wider world.

"We will affect a decisive shift in the fortunes of the long suffering Iraqi people and we will have reasserted the authority of the international rule of law," Straw said in a speech to the Royal Institute for International Affairs in London, in which he argued what he described as the moral case for tough action on Iraq.

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