The excerpt below is from Tony Blair's speech
(http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page3295.asp).
Derrel
>I recall a few weeks ago talking to an Iraqi exile and saying to her that
>I understood how grim it must be under the lash of Saddam.
>
>"But you don't", she replied. "You cannot. You do not know what it is like
>to live in perpetual fear." And she is right. We take our freedom for
>granted. But imagine not to be able to speak or discuss or debate or even
>question the society you live in. To see friends and family taken away and
>never daring to complain. To suffer the humility of failing courage in
>face of pitiless terror. That is how the Iraqi people live. Leave Saddam
>in place and that is how they will continue to live.
>
>We must face the consequences of the actions we advocate. For me, that
>means all the dangers of war. But for others, opposed to this course, it
>means - let us be clear - that the Iraqi people, whose only true hope of
>liberation lies in the removal of Saddam, for them, the darkness will
>close back over them again; and he will be free to take his revenge upon
>those he must know wish him gone.
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