QUOTE: normblog pointed me to this:
"As leaving-Labour people tend to do, Foot's friend wrote a letter to Tony Blair:
I am totally opposed to the war in Iraq and feel that the justification now being used (that we have removed an evil dictator) opens the door to other such adventures and interventions in the future. Saddam Hussein was not by any means the worst of the dictators in charge of a country in the world today. Are we to make war on them all?
I find this the most curious reason to oppose the war of all. I can understand someone feeling betrayed by the absence of WMD or by the failure to win 100 percent UN security council backing for action. But to oppose the war because it removed an evil dictator and that might set the precedent of removing other evil dictators is a pretty bizarre position for someone who presumably considers themself to be a democratic socialist and internationalist isn't it?"
Well, yeah.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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