Iraq - Robin 'Cooked' on the BBC

Norm posts about an exchange on the BBC between Robin Cook and William Rees-Mogg. Read the whole thing but here is a snippet.

Cook returns to the matter of WMD, and disarming Iraq, and whether Iraq was a threat, and is then asked by the interviewer, 'Would Saddam still be there?' Here is the money passage, Cook's reply to that question:

"Umm... Well, that of course... the longer the period that passes... it is now
some two years since the invasion... the longer, that becomes a speculative
question. Anybody who has seen Saddam Hussein emerge from his hole and has seen
the disordered, deranged mind that he now has, is bound to ask whether those
that were actually saying at the time of the invasion that Saddam would fall in his time, would probably have been right by now."

Better read it again. (You're right - there's no reference to the Hussein boys, Uday and Qusay.) I referred in my previous post to the 'self-comforting ways' in which some people manage to evade the fact that but for George Bush and Tony Blair Saddam Hussein's regime would still be extant. Robin Cook's answer here is one of those ways, although the particular variant is new to me; and so this post does not fulfill the intention I expressed in that post when I said 'more of which in due course'. More of which, therefore, in due course.
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