So Lawrence of Arabia & Winston Churchill recommended poison gas for civilian control.

[NNN0LHI]

So Lawrence of Arabia & Winston Churchill recommended poison gas for civilian control. England & US produced and sold Sadam WMDs and encouraged him to use it against the Iranians to halt Muslim fanaticism. The US refuses to rule out using tactical nuclear weapons. And we are invading Iraq because we suspect he might not have destroyed all the WMDs we sold him. Just a moment while I put on my history-resistant sunglasses.
Jan, UK


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2719939.stm

Britain's role in shaping Iraq

Monday, 3 February, 2003

What to do about Iraq is hardly a new question for the UK. For it was Britain that drew the map of Iraq, and it has never ceased to play a significant role there.

The British also wanted to reduce the cost of ruling Iraq by relying on air power rather than expensive ground troops. It was a testing ground for the Royal Air Force.

Arthur "Bomber" Harris, who was to lead the bomber offensive against Germany 20 years later, did not conceal the fact that he aimed at civilian targets.

Harris said in 1924 that he had taught Iraqis "that within 45 minutes a full-sized village can be practically wiped out and a third of its inhabitants killed or wounded".

Some other British leaders were equally blood-thirsty. After the revolt of 1920, TE Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - wrote to the London Observer to say: "It is odd that we do not use poison gas on these occasions."

[malaise]

1. The imperialists have been committing genocide for

centuries. The Brits have an awful lot of blood on their hands and they pretend to be oh so decent - evil fuggs all of them.

[Taxloss]

2. "All of them"?

Every single Briton?

[orpupilofnature57]

5. Only the Imperialist ones ,Americans too.

Lennon said it all " But the sun don't shine , standing in the English way "

[GCP]

3. Yes, we Brits have some very nasty skeletons in our cupboards

I'm ashamed of a lot of the stuff that happened under British rule.
Only now, years later, does this stuff come out.

[Harmonicaman]

4. Churchill

Was also of the opinion, quite seriously, that all German soldiers over the rank of sergeant, and civilians who held administrative posts of Burgermeister and above should have been executed after WW2.

Its said that you can become that what you hate most -

killing civilians, imprisonment without trial, torture, stripping away of own peoples rights :

Bush becomes Saddam

[Taxloss]

6. He was fond of concentration camps as well, was Churchill.

He saw them in action when we - the British - invented the concept of concentrating civilians in camps all the way back in the Boer War.

[Ms. Clio]

7. Churchill, 1919

“(I advocate) using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes . . . against recalcitrant Arabs as an experiment. (I do not understand) the squeamishness about the use of gas . . . We cannot in any circumstances acquiesce in the non-utilization of any weapons which are available to procure a speedy termination of the disorder which prevails on the frontier.”