From The Gaurdian UK
Editorial

Yesterday’s Commons debate on Iraq was a poor affair, confused in its execution and disappointing in its outcome. This was not the fault of the Plaid Cymru and Scottish Nationalist MPs without whom there would have been no debate at all, but of the Conservatives and especially the Labour party, both instigators of the Iraq war, who have since had a shared interest in denying parliament any significant say in determining what went wrong, who was responsible and what should happen next. The Conservatives, who voted with the government against the Liberal Democrats when Iraq was last debated, in May 2004, changed sides yesterday, which was welcome. But their conversion was late, hesitant and no substitute for direction - and on Iraq, the main opposition seems to have no clear policy at all. Meanwhile Labour MPs, most privately aghast at the bloody mess their government has created, did not dare break ranks in sufficient numbers on a motion backed by their political opponents. Most Labour interventions in the debate were cheap shots aimed across the floor of the house.

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