6.2.05
05:18 | Posted by liminal | Edit Post
True: He is the reporter that broke the David Kelly story and subsequently resigned following the Hutton Report. Writing in the Spectator he says that: “The almost desperate optimism of Tony Blair and George Bush about the elections turns out to have been shared, at least in part, by a substantial portion of people in an even more desperate situation: the Iraqis. Whenever I get back to Britain after visits to Iraq, I am asked how the inhabitants can survive. But as in so many other dreadful places, people here are more hopeful than they have a right to be, because their state is so precarious that it would be fatal to lose hope. Pessimism is a luxury that only the prosperous can afford.”

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