We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.

I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them - or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right.

One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.

What I'm really more interested in doing - because I think, in a way that's kind of obvious - and you can see, look into Austria - you've got a far-right candidate who may become the president because he's in a close-run race.

A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.

Saddam was a threat, that the threat had to be dealt with.

Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.