I'm gratified and indeed proud that HM Government has taken the courageous step of providing the funds and facilities so we might hear the very sound reasons of why it was deemed essential - on the basis of irrefutable intelligence - for our forces to be dispatched, to a distant land, in an effort to deny a very dangerous dictator the means to use his stockpile of weapons of mass destruction against our nation.
I can sleep safely with sublime contentment in the full realization that the government of the day led with wisdom and determination by Prime Minister Blair, so ably assisted by Mr A Campbell, Chancellor G Brown and a select group of other far-seeing personnel took the necessary steps to ensure that our nation would never be threatened by such an unstable despot.
I will humbly remember in prayer all those in government and other agencies who selflessly put this nation’s interests before party politics, infatuation with other national leaders and self aggrandisement to work so tirelessly for the good of each and every one of us.
Lord show them mercy and preserve them.