dingodan
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- Feb 16, 2011
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With Iraq not sure that is true. I was in UK 2002-06 and at the beginning although Blair was not as popular as 1996 the Govt was still well ahead int he polls... it was, in fact, Iraq that led to the drop in popularity as I remember it. It was at the next election that for the first time in my life I told a Labour MP canvassing to not even bother opening his mouth if he could not give a better answer than 'We have seen secret documents...' to justify the war.
"In an age when all the grand ideas have lost credibility, fear of a phantom enemy is all the politicians have left to maintain their power."
"Those with the darkest nightmares, became the most powerful."