The science of genetics tells us first we are all disabled

First its assertions were never nuanced by qualification or rational doubt. Secondly it presented a one-dimensional picture without any conflicting information. Anything that did not fit the case for war got filleted out in successive drafts.An excellent example is highlighted in the ISC report which reveals that early drafts of the Prime Minister's foreword contained the caveat, "The case I make is not that Saddam could launch a nuclear attack on London or another part of the UK (he could not)." The ISC, with dry understatement, observes that the removal of this sentence was "unfortunate" It was also no doubt deliberate. I am getting up a campaign for Ann Taylor for Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee. What always puzzled me about the September dossier was its certitude. In that respect it resembled none of the JIC assessments I used to read at the Foreign Office.

They were tentative and qualified, and fairly set out the intelligence evidence on both sides of the question. The September dossier was markedly different in two key issues of tone. In short it has all the virtues that the notorious September dossier lacked. The report of the Intelligence and Security Committee is cautious, balanced and understated.

Whether you express this shared humanity in terms of our immortal soul, or by saying that there is that of God in every one, or in terms of universal human rights, the message is the same.. Every one of us has genetic mutations, potential genetic disease. Second, our similarities are far greater than our differences.Our differences amount to less than a 10th of one per cent of our genome. The science of genetics tells us: first, we are all disabled. On the other, we have radical disabled people arguing that they do not want to be cured, they are disabled by society, not by their bodies.Genetics has the potential to be a great servant, but it should never be the master of society It cannot become the basis on which we value each other.

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