"At present we are paying 8 millions a year for the privilege of living on an ungrateful volcano"

Posted by Robert on December 17, 2006 8:20 AM

"At present we are paying 8 millions a year for the privilege of living on an ungrateful volcano out of which we are in no circumstances to get anything worth having" -- [1] Winston Churchill on Iraq, in a September 1922 letter to David Lloyd George (thanks to Looney Tunes).

Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/12/at-present-we-are-paying-8-millions-a-year-for-the-privilege-of-living-on-an-ungrateful-volcano.html

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[1] http://www.winstonchurchill.org/files/public/Ungrateful_Volcano.pdf