The law of inverse proportions applies to Iraq. The greater the death toll, the less we in Britain seem to care. Each report of violence, each new piece of evidence of pre-war miscreance by our politicians produces the same shrug of the shoulders. And yet nearly six months after elections that were supposed to herald a new era, that were (very briefly) seized upon by a cheerleading clique as “vindication” of the Blair-Bush 2003 adventure, the situation deteriorates on a number of fronts.

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