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Fri Nov-13-09 01:01 PM
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10. Maybe he's saying that if the UK either brought in overwhelming force

when things started going sour in 1951, or signed it over to Egypt immediately w/ a treaty allowing shipping rights, that a messy war causing political trouble could have been averted? That by merely occupying the canal area and getting sniped at and trying to resolve things w/ the least change of the status quo for the first 5 years led to much unnecessary loss of life, huge monetary expenditure, and unpleasant politcal repercussions?

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