Once it was very clear that weapons of mass destruction did not exist in the country we had bombed, invaded and allowed to be systematically looted, and whose infrastructure we wrecked and whose social fabric we had drastically weakened over the previous decade of sanctions - the British government's excuse then was “to bring freedom and democracy”.
Women in Iraq, especially urban and working women, have become less “free” than at any time since the 1930s, and their role in this new…