“Lots of people think about Iraq in moral terms, Abu Ghraib and kind of despicable morality, which reminds us too closely of Saddam Hussein. There’s the Iraq that means to a lot of people Fallujah and the killings of thousands upon thousands of harmless people… I do think that it [London bombing] is linked to Iraq. I do think that politicians have deliberately over-simplified the arguments of people who say it’s connected to Iraq…What I’m saying is that Iraq is not simply something that happened that generates terrorists, it’s a whole rhetorical set of meanings that won’t go away – the Prime Minister may want us to move on, it’s too symbolic – it’s deep in our consciousness.”
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