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January 30, 2005
Exit from Iraq
Robin Cook, Lord Hurd and Menzies Campbell, writing in the Times, agree that Britain should withdraw its troops from Iraq within a year, and leave the Iraqis to sort out their political problems themselves.
Perhaps this is an indicator that we are finally reaching the point where we can all agree that Iraq has been an unmitigated disaster, caused, like Vietnam, by ignorant politicians who failed to do their basic research. Politicians who failed to read their history books, who failed to look at their maps, who failed to examine the social, economic and political systems of the country they imagined they were going to change for the better.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4218793.stm
Posted by Simon Holledge at January 30, 2005 12:03 AM
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