Remembrance Sunday Special: Remember the war of words

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In Iraq, troops fight on as those who sent them beat an ignoble retreat

Then (September 2002)
What I believe the assessed intelligence has established beyond doubt is that Saddam has continued to produce chemical and biological weapons.

Now (July 2004)

I have to accept that we have not found them and we may not find them. He may have removed or hidden or even destroyed those weapons.
Tony Blair, BRITISH PM

Then (March 2003)
We go to liberate, not to conquer. We will not fly our flags in their country. We are entering Iraq to free a people ... show respect for them.

Now (October 2006)
Three years into the occupation, with no real improvement, it is time to admit failure ... British failure in Iraq may be seen by history as "ill-conceived and without enough effort".
Col Tim Collins FORMER BATTLE GROUP LEADER

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1963417.ece