Like the majority people in Britain who were opposed to the war in Iraq, I’m pleased that the government plan to withdraw all of our military personnel from the country by at least July next year.
They were there for what would be a total of six years…. all for the lie that the country had weapons of mass destruction. They were part of an occupation that tells more about the self-inflated egos of George W Bush and Tony Blair than of a plot to get rid of despot Saddam Hussein.
They leave an Iraq in a worst mess than before, and suffering from widespread sectarian divisions. This is Britain’s true lasting legacy on international affairs…. and it’s a shameful one.