Illegal & immoral; I thought so before it started, throughout its prosecution, and still do today. At least most of the lies* and hypocrisy** have now been thoroughly exposed, but they were clear from the beginning, as was the Orwellian doublethink of Blair and Bush. I thought the way the media curled up and swallowed the government line was spineless, and as ever, any outpouring of bellicose flagwaving always creates an uneasing feeling for me. The country turned into a mindless, bloodthirsty mob incapable of analysing the facts of the situation.

* WMD and Saddam-Al Qaeda links, faked intelligence etc
** Saddam was a bad man who had to be removed, even though he was just as bad when we were supporting him, oh and all the poison gas he ever had we sold to him in the first place