Twenty years ago today the US and British tanks rolled into Iraq in an illegal invasion, which, contrary to the belief of one of its chief progenitors, Tony Blair, did not entirely suffuse the Iraqi people with joy. It was an illegal war launched on a false pretext that, I suspect, both Blair and George W Bush knew was a false pretext. The consequence was the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis (some put the figure as high as one million), civil war and chaos — which later overspilt into Isis and the Syrian civil war, where a further half a million lost their lives. The fighting continues.
I suppose there must be one or two people, besides Blair, who still believe that this
