Iraq - Tony Blair, David Miliband and Revisionism

Tony Blair said on BBC Radio 4 this morning 'The biggest fallacy of all is that there are those who say that if we had not invaded then everything in Iraq would have been perfect'. In 10 years of blogging, reading, watching and listening about Iraq I have never read or heard of anyone even suggesting that. If you're going to make a straw man argument, you would at least try to make it slightly realistic and credible. Of course nothing was perfect under Saddam. But I'll tell you what - most people had electricity, schools, hospitals, food  on the table and the country had enough psychiatrists to handle the incidence of mental health issues. That is not the case today. Something else not there today is the myriad of the dead and displaced  Iraqis, running into millions. Blair appears (!) to think that the Iraqis that he and Bush killed, and caused to be killed when the sectarian Pandora's box was opened, died happier than those killed by Saddam. Meanwhile, the Blairite disciple David Miliband continues his belated attempts to distance himself from the Hindenberg legacy of his mentor.