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Article: Londonistan calling: the U.K.'s proven it will fight the radical Islamist threat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why not in London?
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- Western Standard
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- August 28, 2006
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The Prime Minister made a great impression on his recent trip to London. I don't mean just the number of times I was told what a splendid chap this Simon Harper/Stephen Cooper fellow was. My favourite proximation, by the way, was "Stephen Howard": there's no higher praise than being taken for John Howard's cousin. But, aside from that, I was struck by the way every speech was more robust than the circumstances required. For example, in an all but unreported address to the Canada-United Kingdom Chamber of Commerce (i.e., Air Canada, Alcan Europe and a lot of other go-along-to-get-along global corporate types), he said the following:
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