Do you now regret voting for the Iraq war?
I definitely regret voting for the Iraq war. I don't regret thinking it was absolutely right getting rid of a genocidal murderer when the opportunity arose The problem is if you're doing it with the most powerful country in the world who doesn't actually, it turns out, have any clue about how you rebuild a country then you're destined not just for failure, but for ongoing catastrophe of a level that is quite unimaginable. Yes I do regret it. What I regret most really though is that during that time in 2003 the fate of the world rested on the whims of madmen. You know, George Bush on the one hand and Saddam Hussein on the other. You know Jenna said to me recently, but how can you oppose George W. Bush, I mean obviously anyone with a brain would oppose George W. Bush, and yet support going to war in Iraq. And to me that's a really strange question cause i could turn that around and say how could you oppose Saddam Hussein and yet not want to go to war in Iraq. It wasn't a win-win situation though, because leaving Saddam Hussein in power meant he would carry on doing what he had done. And one of the really strong reasons that I wanted to vote to get rid of Saddam Hussein was that the United Nations said he had manipulated the oil-for-food program, the Un oil-for-food program, and that his actions resulted in the deaths of half a million Iraqi children. So I just think on both sides of the argument people have to remember leaving Iraq alone, being pro-peace, does actually mean saying okay, well let those half a million children die. We'll let the Iraqi's die. Nonetheless, looking at the situation now it was wrong. The way the war was prosecuted was absolutely wrong. So, although I think it was right to get rid of Saddam Hussein, it was done in a way that was so wrong nothing can make right that wrong.
