Today the USA troops leave Iraq after almost nine years. A former official at the Pentagon and chairman of the Defence Policy Board, Richard Perle, an author of the invasion talks here. I find his arguments unconvincing - yes, we made some mistakes but we are not to blame. These are precisely the sort of (massive) mistakes people like that are paid not to make - else give the job to a random eighteen year old with good intentions.

2977 victims died on 9/11. Why add to that tally all the thousands more who died as a result of this war?