Simple Truths

So it’s been 5 years since the Iraq War began.

To be fair to Tony Blair, back in 2003 I would have said that simply invading Iraq, toppling Saddam and freeing its people would be a relatively easy thing to do. I disagreed with and marched against the way Tony went about it, but at the core, I didn’t mind too much about the war given it’s difficult to feel sorry for an evil dictator. One that, I thought, would be better gotten rid of.

Five years of carnage, wasted money and a staggering amount of bloodshed later and both Tony and I should now be able to see that we were both wrong. The level of instability that has been caused as a result of invading Iraq does not justify the tired excuse of looking for weapons of mass dstruction. As Tony said in 2003, history would judge him and it has found him wanting.

My mistake was simple naivety.

Tony Blair’s mistake, in ignoring the vast intelligence and swathes of resources at his fingertips, was simply criminal.