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07/18/2005: "The Dacre Shuffle"

Have a look at these three opinions in the aftermath of '7/7':

1. 'We argued, as did the security services in this country, that the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq would increase the threat of terrorist attack in Britain. Tragically Londoners have now paid the price of the Government ignoring such warnings.'

2. 'The price for being America's foremost ally, for joining President Bush's Iraq adventure, was always likely to bne paid in innocent blood. ... We must acknowledge that, by supporting president Bus's extravagances in his ill-named War on terror and ill-justified invasion of Iraq, Blair has ensured that we are in the front line beside the U.S., whether we like it or not.'

3. 'Now we see some of the consequences of our decision to let ourselves be hauled along in the wake of the Americans in a bogus cause, steeped in lies and deceit from start to finish and which has had consequences for Iraq - and now for us - which were both predictable and predicted.'

The three seem to me to express broadly the same sentiment. Furthermore, all three were carried in the same paper, the Daily Mail of 8th July, the day after the bombs. What distinguishes them is that while the latter two were expressed by Mail columnists - respectively, Max Hastings and Andrew Alexander - the first was uttered by the paper's bete noir, the indomitable George Galloway, and was carried under the headline 'The twisted logic of Galloway'.

Now, is it just me ...?