It is perhaps only in the Independent, a self-proclaimed viewspaper, that a front page news story would begin with the words “The dam has burst”. But the piece from its Washington correspondent Rupert Cornwell on Bill Clinton’s use of the phrase “a big mistake” in relation to the Iraq war bears some scrutiny.The Independent’s position on the war - which it consistently opposed - is not being endorsed, so to speak, by the president. He said it was good that Saddam had gone, but that the Bush administration had underestimated “how easy it would be to overthrow Saddam and how hard it would be to unite the country.” It is rather hyperbolic to claim, as the paper does, that this rather nuanced position “is echoing around the world”. But I guess that is the viewspaper business. It makes for a great front page.

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