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01 March 2003

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Our last occupation, Jonathan Glancy. Guardian 19.4.03. During a recent demonstration organised by students against the invasion of Iraq a handwritten notice was stuck to a statue of Winston Churchill outside the Houses of Parliament. It read: "He used WMDs in Iraq first". Police officers ordered that it be taken down and the kids refused, saying "it's true". The policemen tore into the offenders before ripping the poster down and shredding it in front of them. In his article Glancy reprises the period of British rule, when "Iraq proved a useful testing ground for newly forged weapons of both limited and mass destruction, as well as new techniques for controlling imperial outposts and vassal states." Churchill defended the use of chemical weapons against "recalcitrant Arabs" saying: "I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes...[to] spread a lively terror...".

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