‘Given the countless cases of verified Iraqi human rights violations, including torture and murder, before, during and since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, it was hardly necessary for any government or any public relations firm to manufacture false stories. There were so many appalling accounts, all sickeningly true, that it would have been totally unnecessary and counterproductive to invent atrocities.’

Some people need to be reminded that Saddam was the real ‘war monger’ of 1990-1991, and that the war to defeat him and liberate Kuwait was fully justified. In fact, the only really immoral act the USA and Britain committed was to fail to support the Iraqi people when they tried to overthrow Saddam in March 1991. We’d have saved Iraq and the wider world a lot of trouble had we done so.

Incidentally, regarding ‘For the Record’, isn’t it strange how many people will bring up the ‘incubators’ story as if to indicate that there was nothing untoward about Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, or about the behaviour of Iraqi occupation forces from August 1990-March 1991? It’s almost as if they’re trying to make excuses for aggression and crimes against humanity, IMHO.

Locally he’s remembered warmly as having helped with small good things like open space projects too.

Anyone who backs Taiwan and stands up to the ruthless dictators in China is good in my book (British “Olympian” (actually crawling in the mud) Association please note).