Thanks Alan for taking time out to give a sensible and constructive reply. If only more Labour supporters were like you!
I don't expect an immediate withdrawl, however, don't think we can stay there on an open ended timescale - but surely we can say, "such and such a date and we are out". And in that time scale we try and get UN peace keepers in or somthing onlong those lines (before anyone has ago at my idea, I am not a military adviser, it is the process that I am concerned with here, not the specific solution). If peace comes before that date, we withdraw, if Iraq is still experiencing civial war by the withdraw date, we still withdraw.
The one thing I disagree with you Alan, is that this war saw the biggest protests known to the UK - the government should apologise. Admittedly, when David Blunkett apologised for his affairs, only the Daily Mail cared. I agree that MP's/Government shouldn't apologise for every minor mistake, but can you call the situation in Iraq small?
