Now in a sane world Bush and Blair would put the Iraqi stuff on the back-burner, while the inspectors go round doing their stuff, and the troops go scuba-diving in the Persian Gulf, and instead they'd concentrate on getting the Israel Palestine situation sorted out.

And when that was done, if there was still some reason to have a war oin Iraq, there's be a few more people in the region who'd think that maybe these guys aren't such cynical bastards as we thought.

And a lot of people in Palestine and Israel who'd have good reason to be a lot happier. And no more pregnant women killed by having her house bulldozed flat on top of her, as happened the other day, or 95 year old ladies shot dead at checkpoints; or kids killed by suicide bombers.

But we don't live in a sane world.