2. He also argued that available alternatives to war, namely targeting Iraq's illegal oil revenues, were ignored.

Subtly misquoted, Teribus. Alnmost as good as Blair's dissembling on 1441. What do you do - cut and paste then edit to suit your needs? And what has that Snopes link got to do with whether Saddam's WMD programme (even supposing it existed) posed a threat to the UK?

In case you don't unmderstand, the WMD programme and the question of what threat it posed, are two different issues. On the latter point - quite an important one when it comes to justifying a war of choice - it was amusing to see Blair responding to Lawrence Freedman yesterday. He passed off the "45-minute" sexing-up of the dossier as a minor detail that played little part in the debate - notwithstanding that he had thought to put it in the foreword and that - as Freedman pointed out - it filled most of the following day's front pages.

Sorry, T, but Blair's going to take a hammering in the Chilcot report. That won't trouble you any more than the evidence in the Butler report annexes will have bothered you. But it's a shame for Blair, obsessed as he is to leave a lily-white legacy.