Good Business

Read BBC correspondent John Simpson's article about his interview with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal just prior to the US invasion of Iraq. Al-Faisal's predictions at the time were depressingly prescient (as were mine and thousands of others'). More depressing is the foreign minister's final comment:

Just over three years ago, when I interviewed the Saudi foreign minister, I asked him why he thought the US was determined to invade Iraq.

He said he had put the same question to Vice-President Dick Cheney. Mr Cheney had replied: "Because it's do-able".

How many families of the dead and wounded will find comfort in knowing they sacrificed because "it's doable"?

If you still have any doubts, I recommend seeing Eugene Jarecki's "Why We Fight".