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Iraq war, Whitehall and the fallout
Iraq war, Whitehall and the fallout
Last Modified: 20 Mar 2008
By:
Gary Gibbon
Iraq has profoundly affected the way decisions are taken on the home front in Whitehall.
The fall out from Iraq has yet to remove British troops from the south of the country and Gordon Brown, still insists the war was right.
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But five years on, every major leader who signed up to the Iraq war - bar George Bush - has resigned or been defeated. They include Tony Blair for whom the war sped his departure from Number 10.
We report from Jordan, which has, like Syria, absorbed a million or more Iraqi refugees, but unlike Damascus it has also prospered from the trade and emergency relief that has funnelled into Iraq across its borders both to fuel the war and to preserve the people.
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