Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship

I do not doubt that, but I have to stress the point, which came out in the debate, that while the MOD prepared for an invasion in March 2003, the Department for International Development received an instruction to do absolutely nothing. There was no plan. Yes, we can blame things to do with de-Ba'athification on the coalition, but we went in there without any capability for post-conflict reconstruction. That is why we are debating this today, rather than three years ago.