[Omen]

Originally Posted by angus58

Still missing the point completely I see! Ah well since your opinion is totally flawed and without any discernible merit, it is pretty much meaningless in terms of this debate since dismissing others' views as "rubbish" has always been the ploy of those without a valid argument. There's none so blind as those who refuse to see.

The decision to go to war was George Bush's. Britain went with it in order to maintain the "Special Relationship". This special relationship goes back to to WW2, to Thatcher and Reagan, Blair and Clinton, Bush and Obama.

Bush called for a coalition of the willing and top of the qeue had to be Britain. And after Blair had apparently twisted the Americans' arms to go into Kosovo, Britain doubly-owed the US. The decision to be at the top table of the coalition, to be the most enthusiastic supporter, was Her Majesty's Government's.

Blair was informed over a year in advance of the invasion. He was given time to go away and cook up an excuse to carry the British people with him. Britain needs to be at the top table sitting at the right hand of America. The Conservatives would have had to follow had they been in the hot seat. That's why the Conservatives backed the war. It was a decision taken in what was perceived as the best interests of HMG. The Lib Dems had the luxury to dissent because they were/are not a major party.

Don't tell me the Conservtives would have been any different. And that's why they voted for the war.