Iraq the Reckoning

Tues 10 Jan 2006 10pm
Spectator Political Editor Peter Oborne examines the political and military disaster that is the invasion of Iraq.

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Oborne argues that Western forces entered Iraq with no idea of how to get out. The only objective they had was to remove Saddam Hussein and once that was done they found themselves without a single, unifying objective. Without a clear purpose why they were there they had no idea what they were there to achieve nor how to achieve it. And worse still without an objective they remain without any way to judge when their job is done, and when it is time to leave.

Oborne argues that it is now time to face up to the errors that were committed when we went in, as it is the only way to work out how to get out. We need to get out of Iraq – but to do that we need an exit strategy.

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