Between Iraq and a hard place.

I wore out my blogging fingers five years ago telling whoever would listen that to follow Dubya into his Iraq adventure would be disastrous. There were worse threats than him around at the time. Now five years on they're still there and Iraq is the rats nest we warned about.
It's too much to hope that any of the present cabinet will come out and say 'well, we fucked that up' The previous incumbent is clearly never going to admit he was wrong (a Middle East peace envoy for God's sake! Tom Lehrer was wrong, political satire didn't die when they gave Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize it just went into a deep coma. Tony just switched off the life support machine on it.) and the Whitehall elves are working feverishly to rewrite history so that it was actuall always our avowed intention to remove Saddam.
It just makes me weary. Too tired to fight-almost.
Oh and one more thing, I hate it when anybody who voices anti war feelings is accused of betraying our troops.
For the record, our forces are the only ones to emerge from this with clean hands. They get sent to do the bidding of the political pygmies, they don't have a choice.
Anti-war, yes, pro troops, definitely.
Five years on.
And on.
and on