No plan and no peace
A rather damning story for Tony Blair on the BBC. The fact that there wasn't any real plan for post-invasion Iraq is well established for anyone paying attention. The reason this story will makes Blair's role appear even worse is three-fold.
1. He knew just how disastrous the consequences would be without a good post-invasion plan.
2. He waited until just eight weeks before the invasion to start "tearing his hair out" over the fact that there wasn't any plan.
3. Despite knowing all of this, he still put his full support behind the invasion and mouthed platitudes about how good things were going to turn out.
Bush, at least, can fall back onto the fact that he's an incompetent moron who didn't know any better. Blair has to contend with why he went ahead with it, knowing full well it was going to be a disaster.
