DISASTER

Who said this and when? "The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiques are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient that the public knows... We are today not far from a disaster." Answer: TE Lawrence (of Arabia fame) in The Sunday Times in August, 1920. And every word of it is true today.

A Mire of Death, Lies and Atrocities
by Robert Fisk
The Independent
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