Yes she did. The "Independent" is a pretentious bit of newsprint that never fails to amuse in its advocacy of lefty loonacy. In this same issue is an article which practically has Britain being overrun with everything from Great White Sharks to Rosemary Beetles, all due of course to Global Warming which as we all know is George W. Bush's fault.
This edition also contains an article about a poll which shows that "60% believe Iraq War spending a waste." Of course, the poll was commissioned by the likes of Oxfam, ActionAid, Christian Aid, DATA and Save the Children: charities which can hardly be said to understand that handouts do not always buy peace.
Likewise, handouts do not appear to buy proofreaders: According to Oxfam, the amount the UK set aside for the war could have been used to set up 860,00 schools or 5.8 million water wells in the third world.
Although Mr Blair has personally pledged to do more to help Africa, the debt relief delivered by rich countries to Africa is less than 1 per cent of the amount that the coalition spent on the Iraq war. The cost of buying five stealth bombers, around $1bn (£550m) each, could get all the world's 100 million children not inn school into education.
That last bit was a quote which I failed to italicize. As punishment, I'll go bake in the sun. Time to hit the beach. Later.