Ken Clarke: "Leading Bush ally became foremost terror target"

bloomberg: U.K. Conservatives' Clarke Links Iraq War, Bombings in London

Conservative Party leadership candidate Kenneth Clarke said Prime Minister Tony Blair's decision to support the U.S.-led war in Iraq made Britain a target for Muslim terrorists.

"The disastrous decision to invade Iraq has made Britain a more dangerous place,'' Clarke said today in a speech in London. The government's decision "to become the leading ally of President Bush in the Iraq debacle has made Britain one of the foremost targets for Islamic extremists.''

"..The reasons given to Parliament for joining the invasion were bogus," Clarke said today. Read more
db: Ken, man of the people, lover of the British 0.5683 litre, now British anti-war figurehead? No I don't think so. There are two large factors here - 1. The Tories have an election running [which is 'heating up' as one newspaper put it]. 2. You don't have to be an anti-war figurehead to acknowledge what is glaringly obvious [see previous posts on the glaringly obvious].

I am keen to see who the well-fed, bulging eyed one is going to have as his deputy - we can all drop dead at any minute - Ken might well be one that does the off sooner than many.