Combatants must distinguish between civilian and military objects and attack only military targets.

And so they should - but they don't. Obviously that is true of the train bombers - but it is true also of those who organised and carried out Operation Shock and Awe, designed specifically to terrorise civilians as well as military.

When I point out that there is no great difference between what is done in our name and what is done to us, that is not intended to imply that I think that I think stuff like the bombings are anything other than vicious murder.

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World War II came about because the German government was intent on aggression against its neighbours. The invasion of Iraq came about because the US government decided to invade Iraq, which was not engaged in aggression against its neighbours, nor in a position to do so.

It was a very nasty government. But I don't think there is any reason to be confident that the government which be running Iraq within a few years will be any better. In fact there are grounds for predicting that in some ways, such as the position of women and of the Christian minority, it may be significantly worse.

In the meantime the terror which has been unleashed upon the Iraqi people as a result of the invasion and occupation daily becomes worse and, and is several orders more terrible than anything we have had to put up with.