The problems you mention were results of the way in which it was prosecuted, not the fact of its
prosecution, though. The disbanding of the Iraqi military and exclusion of all Ba'ath party members from power - along with the favouring of the Shi'ites over the Sunnis - were strategic errors in the post-war administartion that led to the current situation. They could and should have been avoided, but they were nothing to do with the aims and objectives of the war itself.
Thus, the fact that the way in which the war was prosecuted has had negative consequences does not ipso facto make those who marched against the war correct, I'm afraid, since they were simply marching against the fact of its prosecution and could have had no idea what the outcomes were likely to be.
I used it knowingly with a Jamie Oliver sized tongue in my cheek
So fond are you and Sir C of it I had hope it might be picked up on.
I wasnt claiming any knowledge of it
merely that it did the exact opposite of what they wanted to do
Am I missing something? We wanted to go to work and we did
Still voted Bliar back in though. Not to mention Bush and Howard.
All that marching and shouting turned out to be little more than banter.
