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To: GST who wrote (156984)	1/25/2005 7:24:19 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Winston Churchill, on ends and means: "I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. The moral effect should be so good that the loss of life should be reduced to a minimum." - Winston Churchill, May 1919 "The Arab and Kurd now know what real bombing means in casualties and damage. Within forty-five minutes a full-size village can be practically wiped out and a third of its inhabitants killed or injured." - Wing-Commander Sir Arthur Harris, on the utility of gassing Iraqi villages in the early 1920s