The WMD lie? Are you sure it was a lie or simply an incorrect BELIEF?. From the UK perspective Blair and Campbell have asked repeatedly for someone, anyone to show a lie in any of the build up to war. So. There's your challenge. You have to point out the lie. I don't mean something that was...
I'd add something to that point. Until 9/11 no one had tried flying a just fuelled passenger jet into the 92nd floor of a 120 storey office building full of highly flammable office products and 1970s stud walling.
We now KNOW its possible to bring down a skyscraper with a well aimed 737.
Britain was indeed left destitute after WWII and we lost our empire as a direct consequence. But, as Conn Igguldsen wrote:
"after all, what's the point of having an empire unless you are prepared to use it? The British empire was dashed against Nazi Germany, the greatest Evil in modern history...
I've read that now. What do you think that article says? To me it says that a half Pakistani half American malcontent who had been used by the CIA to use his contacts in the world of Islamic hotheads to assist (unsuccessfully) to hunt for OBL turns out to be anti America and is secretly plotting...
I'm not a tin foil hatter but 9/11 was definitely a precursor to the invasion of Iraq. Remember the "axis of evil"? Bush senior regretted not finishing Saddam off after the first Gulf conflict and whispered in his Sons ear that it was the perfect chance to lay that ghost down. If that's a...