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I was very happy to see the British detainees released. I have heard all of the arguments of people who can’t know the facts, assuredly stating that a) the British were lying and had strayed into Iranian waters and b) that absolutely was not the case. I caution all that neither has done enough that they should be trusted at their word.

What really annoyed me was the part of Tony Blair’s speech this morning, where he said that we are in Iraq at the request of the democratically elected Iraqi Government! Excuse me? While I absolutely agree that ships which might potentially be carrying weapons that would fuel the fire should not be given a free run to do so, it is the allies who turned a spark into a fire in the first place – and we were NOT invited to do so. The ‘democratically elected government’ of Iraq may want us there now to protect them, and may indeed be entitled to expect that we put out the flames that we lit. But to say that we are there because they requested us to be, is revisionist history of the most brazen kind.