Miliband: Cloud Cuckoo Land

Press TV

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has claimed that UK's involvement in the Iraq war has earned it respect in the Middle East.

Yep, and appointing Tony Blair as Envoy to the Middle East was pure genius too...

Giving evidence to the public inquiry into Britain's role in the war on Monday, Miliband insisted that many Arab countries now respected Britain more for following through on threats of military force in Iraq.

Is this Zanu Labour double-speak? Does he mean deterrence has been re-established by means of the 'Coalition's' Mad Dog adventurism?

"Even those who disagree with it (the war) would say to me, 'you've sent a message that when you say something you actually mean it. And if you say something's a last chance it really is a last chance'."

Miliband also claimed that the UK is now in a "stronger position," believing that UK decisions on Iraq have not "undermined our relationships or our ability to do business" in the region.

Not sure what kind of 'business' is intended here. Oil business? The safeguarding of the West's Queen of the ME, USrael?