Tories are the most active warmongers known to humankind. Attilla the Thatcher proved that, as did the Tories at the beginning and during the war(s).

The war in Iraq is nothing compared to the deaths and distress worldwide caused by rampant UNFETTERED capitalism - OK Blair had/has to bow and scrape to Mondeo man and other "middle England" nimby marginals to gain/stay in control - BECAUSE, that is the status quo, rightly or wrongly termed "progress". Your "ideal" socialist society CANNOT any longer exist,it's gone, dead, been superceded. SO, he's trying to put things "about" right and "about" equitable to all - any more than "about" is patently impossible - I sincerely believe that - but you can't put things right in 2,3 or even 10 terms of office. Thatcher made sure of that - Blair inherited the last tory government's trail of almost complete social destruction - Labour are/haveto walk/ing the unpleasant tightrope between the greedy and the needy - with metered bias towards society and the needy - hoping to give the pathologically greedy and selfish quasi tory dupes their share, whilst at the same time not allowing them carte blanch to once again rip the fabric of society as they will, and if re-elected - certainly would.

I'll get me coat...