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developed nuclear arms covertly yet it is today the world's third most destructively armed nation. In the past year its police and soldiers killed 118 young people. In the same time 36 Israeli minors were killed by so-called terrorists. Bush and Blair are determined to perpetuate the lie that Iraq, not Israel, is the danger nation; that it has links with Bin Laden and world terrorism. In one of several articles in the Daily Mirror, the brilliant political writer John Pilger ('Bloody Cowards', Jan 29, 2003) draws on his memory of war reporting in Vietnam in the 1960s, observing the waves of B52 bombers as they wrought havoc on undefended villages. And he recalled going back some years later to find 'terribly deformed Vietnamese children' in villages where the Americans had sprayed a herbicide called |