A Good week for Gloating? Alas, not. 20 years after the Iraq War, what can those of us who opposed it now say?

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday Column

 

I had thought this would be a good week for gloating, twenty years after so many fools supported the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq or (in many ways more shamefully) failed to oppose it. Here���s what I said on this page almost exactly 20 years ago, refusing to drop my opposition to the war just because troops had gone in. 

 

���This is not a war for national survival in which we all have to pull together and hush our doubts or be subjugated ...