"
Blair: WMD call was wrong." Everything's just fine and dandy in the end, and the world is a better place . . . . After the fact displays of morality don't wash away the dead and dying, the thousands of people who would still be alive had Saddam been left in place with more carefully implemented economic sanctions, U.N. inspections, and diplomatic and political pressure. And, with Saddam's al Qaeda "connections" utterly disproven and no big bad bombs to be found, Blair's claim about being concerned about U.K. security--as with the Bushies' about U.S. security--being improved is either the sincere belief of a delusional madman or a plain old lie. Iraq is now a gigantic breeding ground for armed religious fanaticism--something it could never have been under Saddam's oppressive, totalitarian but nonetheless secular and
contained government.