Dominic Raab

[Croesy Blue]

They ignored 2 million people on the streets of London once who told them not to invade Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction, that went well too…more BS

Yep completely criminal

[JamesWales]

Yep completely criminal

I marched in London (and Cardiff) about that, but its never easy to assess what could have happened had we not gone in.

Very generally I'd say Iraq was a mistake and Afghanistan wasn't, but things were achieved in both and no one should think they fought in vain IMO. Saddam Hussain and especially the Taliban were tyrants of the highest order.

[J R Hartley]

I marched in London (and Cardiff) about that, but its never easy to assess what could have happened had we not gone in.

Very generally I'd say Iraq was a mistake and Afghanistan wasn't, but things were achieved in both and no one should think they fought in vain IMO. Saddam Hussain and especially the Taliban were tyrants of the highest order.

Walter Mitty

[JamesWales]

Walter Mitty

Given your knee-jerk insults today, I'll take that as a compliment.

[life on mars]

I marched in London (and Cardiff) about that, but its never easy to assess what could have happened had we not gone in.

Very generally I'd say Iraq was a mistake and Afghanistan wasn't, but things were achieved in both and no one should think they fought in vain IMO. Saddam Hussain and especially the Taliban were tyrants of the highest order.

Great post