Airstrip One

Robin Cook, in the Telegraph, saying that we're bombing Iraq for the Iraqis. Of course, if only they knew that they'd be so grateful.

Any way here's the first paragraph:

THE Government's strategy on Iraq has three aims: first, to protect the world from Saddam's weapons of mass destruction; second, to protect his neighbours from his aggression; and third, to protect the people of Iraq, who have suffered most of all from his brutality.

Can anyone else think of a country in the Middle East that has (actually existing) weapons of mass destruction, neighbours who are routinely bashed and who are brutal towards their people?