Tony Blair has to consider very carefully to what extent he can leave Britain, the party and the nation guessing as to when exactly he might go.

I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war.

Saddam is neither friend nor brother to us, and he will never pay off debts to us. It's the question of precedent: today the United States doesn't like Iraq, tomorrow Syria, then Iran, North Korea and then what: everyone else?

Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them.

The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US . . .

The longer we remain in Iraq the more our occupation becomes part of the problem... rather than the solution.

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!