As far as the events unfolding in Iraq are concerned, I remain an agnostic. I thought at the time (on balance), that the decision to invade was a mistake, not because it was undesirable to get rid of Saddam Hussein, or that he hadn’t provided more than enough provocation to warrant attack, but because I was sceptical about how clearly the ‘coalition’ had thought about what was to come next, following Saddam’s miltary defeat. More importantly, I had (and still have), real concerns about the us...