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“If the Iraqis want the sanctions lifted sooner rather than later, then what they have to do is to comply with all the Security Council resolutions which are relevant in this case as quickly as possible. The answer lies in their own hands.”
Christopher Meyer
“We're moving an aircraft carrier from the Caribbean to Gibraltar and we're putting a number of fighter and bomber aircraft on 48 hours notice, if the need should arise.”
“We are not a hospital like O'Bleness,”
“O'Bleness is a hospital. We are supporters of that hospital,”
“I think the U.S. and ourselves are on the horns of an absolutely impossible dilemma.”
“We may have been the junior partner in the enterprise, but the ace up our sleeve was that America did not want to go it alone.”
“Had Britain so insisted, Iraq after Saddam might have avoided the violence that may yet prove fatal to the entire enterprise.”
“the only ally that mattered.”
“That was a powerful lever,”
“Indeed, if it all went wrong at the UN, and the U.S. was faced with going to war alone, it seemed to me that Bush might blink.”
