I actually ‘won’ a ticket for the afternoon session. I got excited when it arrived in the post only to find on closer inspection that it wasn’t for the main room, but a ticket for the viewing gallery. i.e. the chance to watch it next door on a big screen. I decided to save the [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘War on Terror’
January 29, 2010
View on Legality of Iraq War: 2002
Sometimes you find something fascinating in your personal archives. Given Tony Blair’s evidence today I searched my hard drive for anything I had written on Iraq and found this 2002 letter to my then MP:
16th August 2002, To: Colin Challen MP
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Saddam Hussein is a butcher. He is a madman. He shows scant disregard for common [...]
December 6, 2009
Troop Surge in Afghanistan: Reflections
The week’s big ‘War-on-Terror’ story was the announced surge of troops into Afghanistan. Many on the left have expressed dismay at President Obama’s decision and Gordon Brown’s copy-cat intent to up the British presence. The typical anti-surge rhetoric is that more troops will result in more deaths among both allied forces and the local population, [...]
November 27, 2009
The Conclusions of the Iraq Inquiry Will Be….
So then, the Iraq Inquiry is finally on. Just for sport let me predict what the Inquiry’s headline conclusions will be:
Those at the top genuinely did believe an active WMD program existed in Iraq
This false belief was hardened by political interference in intelligence analysis. Anything that seemed to raise the possibility of an active WMD program [...]
