To be fair, we British have pretty good form on doing terrible things to Afghanistan, and it wasn't exactly a source of pleasantness when we all went in this ti

To be fair, we British have pretty good form on doing terrible things to Afghanistan, and it wasn't exactly a source of pleasantness when we all went in this time round. While I accept the original mission was justified for the US, I have absolutely no idea what we were doing in Iraq other than empire-building.