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Show 314 - David Aaronovitch

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The Guardian's View on the War in Iraq

There was definitely a sort of element of, I don't use the word group thing, but there's consensus around on the liberal left that this was a huge mistake from the outset. And certainly the Guardian was very, very vocal in attacking Tony Blair for it. Was there a sense that in a way you were unusual for taking a more nuanced view? It's kind of, it's, I was hugely unpopular at the Guardian for taking this view. And I hadn't arrived that much earlier, actually. The thing before, at the end of 2002, I was still saying, he was still writing that I, that war is such a big thing that you really, really want to kind

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