To say the anti-war movement achieved little is defeatist: Blair left office in ignominy and critics continue to harry his ilk
By George Galloway
The Guardian
".....Five years ago, it was very different. I was treated as mad, bad or both by journalists - not from Murdoch's mucky stables but from the BBC, and the liberal press - for daring to say that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that the Iraqis would fight us if we invaded, not wash our feet in rose water.
It would be an idea to force from them their reflections five years on. Some of them have slinked off to a new cynical argument - you marched, but you achieved nothing.
Well, one of the things we achieved, coupled with the resistance in Iraq, was to ensure that that this issue would shatter the imperial pretensions of Blair's government and would overshadow his entire career. That's made it far more difficult for Gordon Brown to follow George Bush into a new war on Iran, though that is exactly what is being considered......."
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