Answer Time

Another single-issue edition revolving around one panellist. And that panellist was not Piers Morgan, who repeated the old chestnut that, while there were no WMD legitimising the war in Iraq, there were 9/11 attacks legitimising the war in Afghanistan. No. The 9/11 attacks did not come from Afghanistan. They came from Saudi Arabia. Of course George Bush didn't stage them. But they still wouldn't have happened without him, without a President so enmeshed in Saudi affairs. However, he did withdraw the troops left in Saudi Arabia by his father, in consequence of which there has been no further attack on American soil. That was the only conservative thing that he ever did.

As for whether the war could be ended such as to cause "bunting, flags and cheering in the street", of course it could. We would all hang out our bunting, wave our flags and cheer in the streets if those sworn to defend this Realm simply withdrew from doing no such thing and brought themselves home. The people who sent them could find out about it when they saw our bunting, flags and cheering on the telly. Those people would then come crashing down without a shot's needing to be fired, and we could take back our political process. Defence of the Realm, indeed.