Melanie Phillips
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first heard Jun 2026
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that they are within spitting distance of getting a nuclear weapon.
And even more important, they are about to have the capacity through missile production, which means that we can never stop them getting a nuclear weapon.
So we now judge this is the moment when we have to act.
Because they are not just a threat to us, they have been at war with us for more than four decades.
That's what he should have said.
Agreed.
Agreed.
I mean, I have a different view about the Iraq war.
I'm probably the last person on Earth to think that it was a correct war to fight, and that if it hadn't been fought, we'd have now Saddam Hussein as a nuclear power.
But anyway, and also I believe they were WMD, and I believe that American incompetence lost them.
It lost them, and it couldn't admit it.
But that's neither here nor there.
What you're saying is correct.
It was a debacle.
Americans believed that they had fought it for nothing and that it was a terrible mistake.
It was hubris and nemesis.
The hubris was to say, we'll bring democracy to the Middle East and then everything is going to be great.
I know they believe they were lied to.
And Britain believes, you know, Blair lied, people died.
I know that's a belief.
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