We cannot ignore the ghost of Iraq, says Andrew Marr - as he reflects on that piece to camera he gave after Saddam Hussein's statue was toppled
That war changed so much, mostly in Iraq, of course which descended into a kind of Hell afterwards - you may have heard a prominent Iraqi journalist describing it on my show a little while ago.
This was supposed to be when the West imposed its moral authority. But by invading a country, albeit one in the hands of a brutal and dangerous dictatorship, without the explicit say-so of the United Nations, Britain and America lost moral authority.As a journalist I remember vividly flying into Moscow before the war with Tony Blair, to try to get Putin's backing for the invasion.
But 2003 was a year in which we lost a lot of our moral standing in the world. Without the Iraq War, Tony Blair would be remembered very differently by history. It came after months when I'd been pretty hostile to the war, as I was - I had expected a bloody battle outside Baghdad involving British troops; and I'd never thought that invading Iraq would somehow produce a calm desert democracy – Minnesota with palm trees.
I want to finish by reminding you of words from a famous speech Tony Blair made at Labour’s 2001 conference - that is, before the war, but after the Twin Towers attack: "The starving, the wretched, the dispossessed, the ignorant, those living in want and squalor from the deserts of Northern Africa to the slums of Gaza, to the mountain ranges of Afghanistan: they too are our cause.
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