By entering in the way that we did, we have made the position in the middle east worse, and the Crisis in Iraq Today will reverberate.

My Lords, we may be underestimating the scale of the humanitarian Crisis in Iraq Today.

In the light of Tony Blair's protestations to the contrary, I commend the shadow Foreign Secretary for making it clear that he accepts that the Crisis in Iraq Today has its roots in the chaos that has continued since the ill-judged invasion of that country in 2003.