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Alan Clark

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So what does it matter where it was when it was hit? We could have sunk it if it'd been tied up on the quayside in a neutral port and everyone would still have been delighted.
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May 15, 1983; page 5.
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On the sinking of the ARA General Belgrano during the Falklands War.

 
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