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'Nobody you know, darling. Just foreign people.'

'Can I watch it on television?'

'Only if Mr Bush says you can.'

'And afterwards, will everything be normal again? Nobody will do anything horrid any more?'

'Hush, child, and go to sleep.'

Last Friday an American friend of mine in California drove to his local supermarket with a sticker on his car saying 'Peace is also Patriotic'. It was gone by the time he'd finished his shopping.

John le Carrщ January 2003

й David Cornwell 2003

This is an expanded version of a contribution to the openDemocracy global debate on the Iraq crisis published on www.openDemocracy.net