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• ‟ I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.

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• ‟ No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.

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• ‟ But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.

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• ‟ It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

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• ‟ There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.

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• ‟ The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.

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• ‟ We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

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