Robert Fisk

To use the mumbo-jumbo of psychobabble, the Iraqis have "moved on". They don't need "closure". They don't, most of them, care whether Saddam lives or dies. They want electricity, security, a real state. And they still haven't got it. It's typical of us - the Westerners - to believe that Saddam is still our real enemy, at a moment when Iraq can produce an endless supply of suicide bombers and an army - probably the original Iraqi army of Saddam - to assault US and British soldiers. Yes, Saddam was to blame. He was the reason we illegally invaded Iraq. Wasn't he? It gets so tiresome now. Weapons of mass destruction. Links to 11 September 2001. Forty-five minute warnings. Maybe not. But now we can say what we've never said before: we illegally invaded Iraq because - this will soon be the new leitmotif - Saddam illegally invaded Iran. Could it get better than that? (Read the whole article on GlobalEcho)

Saddam handed blame for Iraq's eight-year war with Iran
by Robert Fisk
The Independent