IMO one of the most significant things that happened with the Iraq fiasco was the break up the coalition in the war against terror. The US and UK had pretty much everybody on board when we went in to Aghanistan. These countries are all still on board when it comes to international co-operation against terror. France have been instrumental in the intelligence which has closed down money laundering arrangements.

When we invaded Iraq we alienated many members of the coalition who firmly believed that it would be a backward step in the war against terror. I think they have been proved to be correct. This is where the problem lies.

Senaxflatus is right to say that however we arrived here, Iraq is now a front line in the war against terror. But, we now must convince those who support the coalition against terror to get involved in Iraq after ignoring their fears and advice last year.

We should not be at the stage of trying to build a coalition of the war against terror, we already did that in 2001.

At no time was the invasion of Iraq part of the war against terror, USA and UK never even claimed it to be so. It has now become so, but I am surprised at the amount of people whose revisionist view of history actually think it was.