Summary
IRAQ has been the greatest generator of hypocrisy of our times. It has sent the Left lurching to the far-Right, pushed secularists into the arms of religious fundamentalists and spun round Liberal Democrats so violently that the real victims of the most illiberal and undemocratic regime on the planet - the Iraqi people - are faced with a wall of turned backs.
The power of the conflict to make everyone the opposite of what they pretend to be was confirmed this week by the splendid spectacle of bishops preaching in favour of sin.See the full content of this document
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Bishops Who Back the Sins of Saddam
We must apologise to Muslims for the war against Iraq, said the bishops of Oxford, Coventry, Worcester and Bath and Wells.
Our repentance will be an "act of truth and reconciliation".Forget for the moment that it is cheap and...See the full content of this document
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