Brian Reade Column: Richard Perle / Jack Straw.Byline: Brian Reade Brian Reade is an award-winning writer who has two weekly opinion columns, one on sport, in the Daily Mirror. He is a left-wing republican with very outspoken views, and has interviewed many well known people, including Mohammed Ali.A YEAR ago this week Iraq handed over a 11,807-page dossier on its nuclear, chemical and biological programmes which it said was "current, accurate, comprehensive, truthful". Without studying it, Jack Straw said he expected it to be "a pack of lies" and Pentagon chief Richard Perle said its content was irrelevant. Perle has since admitted the war was "illegal". Straw is silent. His comments then and his silence now are an insult in·sult n. A bodily injury, irritation, or trauma. insult Medtalk noun Any stressful stimulus which, under normal circumstances, does not affect the host organism, but which may result in morbidity, when it to the thousands killed in a conflict he helped start and proof that he should be facing a war crimes trial along with Perle and both of their leaders. |
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