[Barry the Sprout]

One minor point; whlst you are right that the strongest excuse for war was the removal of a dictator it should be made clear that that wasn't the legal basis for the war, or the primary motivation of what public support it managed to garner. The war was not justified by an appeal to human rights but by "evidence" of WMD, and it was only after the weapons failed to materialise that the justification shifted.

Just a brief question for the pro-war crowd - if the war was about liberating people from oppressive regimes can we expect to see tanks rolling into Moscow to stop the persecution of the Chechnyans? Into Israel to stop the persecution of the Palestinians? Somehow I doubt it...