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While youre thinking about the end of WW1 you might take a walk down to Fleet St and take a gander at that statue of Arthur Harris and remember his famous quote from around 1921 - "The Arab and Kurd now know what real bombing means within 45 minutes a full-sized village can be practically wiped out, and a third of its inhabitants killed or injured, by four or five machines which offer them no real target, no opportunity for glory as warriors, no effective means of escape."
Churchill added his comments - on chemical weapons, suggesting they be used "against recalcitrant Arabs as an experiment". He dismissed objections as "unreasonable". "I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes _ [to] spread a lively terror _"
And on went the campaign to control the Iraq "tribal people" with chemicals and poison gas killing
So you might want to add remembrances of all the unruly civilians killed in Iraq up till the 1950s to make sure England could control the oil fields. After all if it werent for them the RAF wouldnt have had anything to do for years
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