[Media-watch] Occupation - the British way

[G McLaughlin]

comrades

re John Meed's observations 

Does it really have to take Robert Fisk to demolish for us the official British line in Iraq? History can be an effective means of dispersing the fog of war. What we see in the towns and cities of southern Iraq today has always been the British way of  occupation - e.g. in Ireland going back to Bloody Sunday in Derry 1972, when they shot dead 13 civilians, and indeed right back to the war of Independence in the 1920s when Britain was also shooting civilians dead (including another Bloody Sunday, this time in Dublin), while at the same time occupying Iraq and bombing and gassing its civilian population. (They used a lot of non-lethal gas in Derry and Belfast in the early part of the troubles until it was discontinued due to serious health risks - or for "operational reasons" as the security forces preferred to put it). 

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