History provides no precise guidelines.

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A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

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People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.

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We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

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There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.

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It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

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People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

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But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.

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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

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Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

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