Would you do anything differently?

Would you do anything differently?

Oona King (Author and Former Member of Parliament) gives expert video advice on: What is 'House Music' about?; Why did you write it?; Do you miss Parliament? and more...

As you'd expect, I certainly wouldn't vote for war in Iraq, because I don't think that George Bush and anyone in the American administration has the slightest possibility of being able to do what you need to do after you invade a country. In Sierra Leon, Britain went in, we did the job, but then we actually knew what to do afterwards to help rebuild the society. And when I visited Hurricane Katrina, the aftermath of it in New Orleans, I was really amazed that the Americans, the strongest power on the planet, had no clue and were incapable of rebuilding a city inside their own national borders. So that really brought home to me that it doesn't matter that it was -- in my view -- right to get rid of Saddam Hussein, it was right I think, because he was a genocidal murderer. Just because George Bush gets away with murder doesn't mean that Saddam Hussein should get away with genocide. So I would do that differently. But overall I wouldn't change anything else, and even now thinking about it, I had a really amazing opportunity to be an MP, I changed the law in five areas and helped change it in many others. And so I don't regret that opportunity, and I can't regret doing what I thought was right at the time, because I really did think it was right to get rid of Saddam Hussein.