Warning to Bush from contrite cold war veteran

Fiachra Gibbons, arts correspondent, in Cannes
Friday May 23, 2003
The Guardian

Robert McNamara, the US defence secretary during the Cuban missile crisis and the first phases of the Vietnam war, has warned of the folly of American involvement in Iraq.

Mr McNamara, a hate figure to the anti-war movement in the 1960s, who rarely airs his views in public, delivered the shot across the bows of the Bush administration in the documentary The Fog Of War, which has been premiered at the Cannes film festival.

"If we can't persuade our allies and other comparable nations, we had better examine our reasoning," he said. "What makes us omniscient? Have we ever displayed omniscience before?" http://www.guardian.co.uk

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