The UK government have finally run out of excuses for their military action in Iraq.

The Foreign secretary Jack Straw speaking on BBC Newsnight, made the tacit admission that the end product of the slaughter was unlikely to be "democracy" as we know it.

Mr Straw appeared to envisage a federal Iraq of three distinct areas,
the kurdish area would be "mainly democratic"???
The Shia area would be "religious but not theocratic"??
And he didn't seem to know what would happen in the Sunni area.
Presumably they will just starve as the oil reserves will be in the Kurdish and Shiite areas.

The wheel has now gone full circle, from WMDs, regime change,building a "democratic society", the well of lies has finally run dry and in the process cost the lives of hundreds of thousands.

This war will shame the Labour Party and the British people who supported it for decades.
It was interesting to see even the hawks of the right wing press like David Aaronovich admit that every day they were moving futher away from outright support for the war.

The consensus seems to be that now we are in this mess,we must "see it through".....See it throught to what? Certainly not democracy, and these old men have started a conflict that they have as much chance of seeing an end to, as the young boys who die daily in their service....Ake