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Originally Posted by steeljack
Churchill was nothing more than an opportunist who changed allegiances with the wind .
Funny how few of the biographies of the "great man" mention his role as Colonial Secretary and his allowing Bomber Harris and the RAF to use poison gas against the Iraqi Kurds during the 20s (Seem to remember another chap got hung a couple of years ago for doing the same).
If anyone is to blame for the debacle in modern day Iraq it can be layed fairly and squarely at Churchills feet , it was his decision to create an artifical country out of three distinct and separate Turkish villyats, divided by race and religon. It was his decision to place one of the foriegn Hassemite princes on the Iraqi throne ,which led to the creation of Baath party and ultimatly Saddam Hussien .
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In your words nothing more than an opportunist.Funny how people like you
can find plenty of faults years after events.A man who never makes a mistake never does anything.A man who makes many mistakes does many things.If Winston would have never been born it would possibly be likely
that you and I would never have had the oppurtunity to even type these quotes.