Disaster in Iraq

Finally the Prime Minister has accepted the reality of what is happening in Iraq.

In an interview for the new English Al-Jazeera TV channel Sir David Frost asked the PM whether the violence in Iraq had "so far been pretty much of a disaster".

The PM replied "It has”.

Now to me that is an agreement with the question. Yet in true New Labour fashion the spin machines have gone to work. A spokeswoman has claimed, "He was simply acknowledging the question in a polite way before going on to explain his view. To portray it as some kind of admission is completely disingenuous."

I fail to see how answering the question, “It has” is an acknowledgment, not an agreement. It seems the Labour spin machine is running out of ideas!

Now let’s take up the PM’s explanation. He said, "It's not difficult because of some accident in planning. It's difficult because there's a deliberate strategy - al-Qaeda with Sunni insurgents on one hand, Iranian-backed elements with Shia militias on the other - to create a situation in which the will of the majority for peace is displaced by the will of the minority for war."

The fact we went to war because the Government ignored the majority opposed to the war of course is conveniently forgotten here.

It’s also quite obvious there is a lack of planning. Just taking what the PM has said. “It’s difficult because there’s a deliberate strategy.” So we failed to plan for the fact there would be any resistance then. Well done Mr Blair.