I have now downloaded the management summary of the monster Chilcot report and maybe I will look at it. I have read the easy-reading summary of the summary - and the verdict of guilty seems clear enough.
We also have a copy of today's Guardian where much space is given to their take on the disaster which was the result of the invasion of Iraq.
I was pleased to see that at least some of the space was given to the thoughts of Ann Clywd, who reminded us that things might well have been pretty grim had we not invaded. We might, for example, easily have had the same sectarian civil war after an assassination that we are now blaming on the invasion. With, I grant, the important difference that it would not have been our fault in quite the way that it is, as it is. It would not have been quite so easy to dump all the blame for all the problems of the (middle) East on the West.
Not so pleased at the continuing lack of contrition from our leader on the day. Perhaps as a fairly newly minted convert to the Roman faith, we should be looking for some kind of medieval penance? The sort of thing, for example, that Henry II went in for to atone for the murder of Thomas Beckett.
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