Hawks who've had second thoughts... (Independent / UK)

[struggle4progress]

Published: 24 September 2005

Boris Johnson, 'Spectator' editor and Tory MP ...
WHAT HE SAYS NOW: "Whatever we achieve in Iraq we will not have made our own world safer, or made the risk of terrorism less likely: quite the reverse."

Max Hastings, Historian ...
WHAT HE SAYS NOW: "I have changed my own mind about Iraq. Today it seems almost impossible to believe that our open-ended presence is achieving anything... Whatever the Americans decide to do in Iraq, the British should start planning their withdrawal."

Geraldine Smith, Labour MP ...
WHAT SHE SAYS NOW: "The situation appears to be deteriorating by the day. The Government has to think seriously about how long we are in Iraq. A firm date ... would help concentrate people's minds in Iraq. I'm not sure the British presence is helping the situation."

... Frederick Forsyth, Author ...
WHAT HE SAYS NOW: "I have changed my mind because Tony Blair lied to Parliament and has continued to lie to the country" ...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article314777.ece

[roguevalley]

1. Freaks. Believed in idiots and now they say they are sorry? They

are afraid of the mob. May the mob find them.

[T_i_B]

2. If somebody who was wrong actually admits they were wrong

then I don't see the problem. It's the pro-Iraq war people who continue to think that it was a good idea to invade who I worry for, not those who have the balls to admit they made a mistake.