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Powell speaks with forked tongue:
Language, not truth, has been the
first casualty of the West's
war against terrorism
Terry Jones
Sunday February 23, 2003
The Observer

"But then the violence being done to the English language is probably
the price we have to pay for cheap petrol."

It was interesting to
hear Colin Powell accuse France and Germany of cowardice in not wanting
to go to war. Or, as he put more succinctly, France and Germany 'are afraid
of upholding their responsibility to impose the will of the international
community'.
Powell's speech brings up one of the most outrageous but least examined
aspects of this whole war on Iraq business.
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