About George W Bush’s Iraq war
- Sergievsky Professor of Epidemiology Emeritus, Columbia University, New York, USA; mws2@columbia.edu
I can make no pretence to pacifism. It was out of conviction that, a mere 18 years old in my native South Africa, I volunteered for service in the second world war. And for the next five years I chose to serve in three successive services and on three successive fronts of the war. Nor have I ever regretted doing so, nor questioned that it was a right and necessary thing to do. That is to say, I believed then and believe now that there can be just and …
