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never happen again George G well dead

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man can't tell Tales Mr Deputy speaker

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and Dr David Kelly isn't here to answer

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what I believe were several unwarranted

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interpretations of events surrounding

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him uh given by the right honorable

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gentleman who has just

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spoken uh the words of Lord

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heart that the circumstance We Now find

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ourselves in as a

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scandal is one compounded by the Acres

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of empty green benches all around us

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today there are some 30 members of the

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House present there are some seven

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members of the labor party which took us

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into the war and most of those were

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Resolute opponents of the war and

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another is in the dock in the inquiry

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and our come to him

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later the schleswig Holstein question

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took a long time but that's because

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nobody knew the

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answer everybody knows the answer to the

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question why Sir John chilcott has come

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forward a week before our debate when he

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knew that it was on the order paper to

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tell us that this inquiry will not

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report before the the general election

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everybody knows the answer to that

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however much flannel is pulled around it

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it is to avoid the fact that the report

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can only highlight the Ironclad

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consensus that existed at that time

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between the two front

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benches the Prime Minister and his

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acolytes only one of whom has the

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courage to be here today and the leaders

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of the opposition

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the then leader who isn't here today but

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whose principal role in these matters

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was to egg the Prime Minister

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on to war bigger and faster as those of

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us who were here well remember bitterly

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remember I declare an interest Mr Deputy

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speaker I am the maker of the film the

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killings of Tony Blair which will be out

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soon I'm doubt hugely benefit boort but

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I have many other interests of a non

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pecuniary nature in this because like

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some of my friends who are not so

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gullible as the Highly expensively

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Educated right honorable gentleman who's

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just spoken we did not look into the

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Bambi eyes of the then of the then I'm

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talking about his university I probably

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helped to pay for it he give way of

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course just just for the record I went

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to a secondary modern School

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school but but you went to an expensive

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University that the rest of us paid

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for the the right honorable gentleman

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says and many others now say that they

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gazed into the Bambi eyes of the then

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Prime Minister Tony Blair and he was

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their prime minister what could they do

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except follow him over the cliff what

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kind of

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parliamentarian takes such an approach

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because somebody tells you something is

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true you must follow them when the

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consequences were easily predictable

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were predicted by millions of ordinary

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citizens out in our streets without the

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benefit of that education without the

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benefit of a seat in this

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house what kind of parliamentarian is a

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question I want to concentrate on

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because because I could talk for hours

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and usually do regularly do about what

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this has all

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cost the people of Iraq the people of

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the wider region but I want to

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concentrate on what it has cost us and I

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don't mean financially either when the

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chil inquiry was announced in this

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house I described it as a parade of

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establishment M

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flunkies who will now say that I was

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wrong I decried the fact that there was

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no a man who knows what military Affairs

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are about I decried the fact that there

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was no lawyer on the panel I had in mind

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the right honorable and learned

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gentleman for Northeast F who could have

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covered for the fact that there was no

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parliamentarian on the panel I decried

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the fact that nobody would recognize

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some of the panel members if they were

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sitting next to them on the clap Omnibus

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and it was difficult to understand why

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they had been chosen I decried the fact

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that two of the members of the panel had

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described Bush and Blair as the Truman

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and chel

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doour they talk about party pre they

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were prizers for the war they were now

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being asked to inquire into no sooner

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had the panel being appointed then the

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principal Gatekeepers who were appointed

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to the inquiry panel and I'm grateful to

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the right honorable gentleman for that

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information he's in our film by the way

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and very eloquent

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too that the principal gatekeeper to the

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chilot inquiry was the principal

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GateKeeper

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between the foreign office and the

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intelligence services and ministers in

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the run up to the war talk about party

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pre these individuals were either

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unqualified or were

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disqualified from participation in this

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inquiry that it has taken so long and

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expensive would of

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course be

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tolerable if our position in the the

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world had not continued to deteriorate

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and the conditions in the world had not

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continued to deteriorate I tell the

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right honorable uh gentleman uh who

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spoke earlier and who's as I said in the

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dock here he will never escape from the

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consequences of what he said and done he

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looks to me a haunted figure compared to

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the spring heill Jack that he used to be

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as well he might because he will never

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escape from it it will follow him to the

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grave and into the history books that he

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przed for something which is turned into

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an unmitigated catastrophe for the world

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but also for

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us I don't blame sir Jeremy hwood Sir

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Humphrey I don't blame even the chilcott

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inquiry I don't blame Tony Blair at

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least for this I blame us this is a poor

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excuse for a parliament Mr Deputy

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speaker if only members of it could more

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clearly see so it is a poor excuse for a

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parliament that sets up an inquiry funds

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an

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inquiry and then says three parliaments

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on as the former Defense secretary said

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three parliaments on we might who knows

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when we might get the fruits of that

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inquiry this is pontious pilot this is

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washing our hands of something which is

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bleeding us at home and abroad what do I

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mean I mean this Mr Deputy speaker this

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has cost us Millions yes it's cost us

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six years yes but the world is hurling

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to disaster the decisions that were made

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here on the basis of the arguments made

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by the government at the

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time has torn Iraq and its region aunder

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it has fantastically fantastically

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unbelievably

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incalculably inflated the danger of

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extremism fanaticism and terrorism Iraq

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no longer exists as a state onethird of

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it is controlled by the heart eating

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head chopping amputating crucifying

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so-called Islamic State and members

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still will not say that they were wrong

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let alone the Prime Minister skating

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around in

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Davos Mr Blair the former prime minister

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who still says he was right and would do

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it all

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again Iraq had no weapons of M

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destruction the argument for the war was

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therefore false if it was not a

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falsehood it has been a catastrophe and

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I told the then prime minister there are

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no al-Qaeda in Iraq but if you and Bush

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invade there will be hundreds of

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thousands of al-Qaeda in Iraq little did

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I know that Al-Qaeda would spawn

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something even more

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horrific than Al-Qaeda I told the then

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prime minister

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the fall of Baghdad will not be the

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beginning of the end but merely the end

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of the beginning and that the fanaticism

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and extremism that you will unleash will

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travel and Cascade everywhere including

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onto our own streets so I close here as

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I see you're anxious Mr Deputy speaker I

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close with this no one outside can

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really understand how all these

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political

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professionals highly remunerated

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highly

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rewarded with all their intelligence and

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education can have made such a

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catastrophic error when millions of

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people who did not enjoy those

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privileges outside already knew that it

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would end in the disaster in which it

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has

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ended speaker it's always