However, it is clear and evident that Tony Blair did not have an exit strategy before he went to war, and nor does he appear to have one now. Not to have counted Iraqi civilian deaths was and is unforgivable, and Iraqis continue to die in what we can only therefore assume to be disturbingly large numbers under the chaos that now reigns. We can only begin to imagine how frustrated the population there must feel as their so-called "elected" government fails to stamp out the insurgent terrorists in their midst.

The United Nations had never sanctioned this military invasion and occupation; Tony Blair continues to refuse to reveal the "legal advice" he was given and "regime change" never has been a lawful justification for invasion under its conventions; our partners in Europe were overruled. The US continues to withhold its share of financial support for the UN and to flout the recommendations of the Security Council of which it is supposed to be a leading member. Its subsidies to the growing and export of its grain to third world countries and its refusal to acknowledge the obvious causes of global warming further alienate an increasing proportion of the populous at large.

I believe it is precisely because of such arrogance that the anti-US attitude, represented by Al-Qaida and other fundamentalist terrorist groups, continues to flourish in those parts of the World who do not share "the West's" love affair with the un-fettered and exploitative capitalism as typified by the "Coca-Colarization" of the World; and until someone is able to make America understand this principle, we must rely on an ever strengthened Europe to put our case. If we fail, the far East will take over international influence of the World, both un-developed and developed - and we shall have failed our children and their children in maintaining the freedom for which our fathers and their fathers fought so valiantly in the last century.