The Real Challenge for Iraq Delivering Democracy Could Prove a Severe Test

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To Tony Blair, it is a struggle. To General Sir Michael Jackson, chief of the general staff, it is a war, albeit one that has changed. In a Sunday newspaper interview, he explained that the conflict in Iraq was initially a manoeuvre war that was accomplished when Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled. Now it is a counter- insurgency war waged against indigenous and foreign fighters.

Although his language to describe current hostilities is more candid than the prime minister's, Sir Michael is at one with Mr Blair in insisting that neither the United States nor Britain had been caught out by a lack of preparedness for dealing with post- Saddam Iraq. This, despite mounting evidence on the bloodied ground in Iraq and in official documents showing the opposite to be the case.

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The Real Challenge for Iraq Delivering Democracy Could Prove a Severe Test

According to another weekend report, Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, and his...

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