According to the BBC's Nicholas Witchell in a series of interviews in Baghdad called Voices from Inside Iraq. Watch them all. Especially the ones from the coffee shop and the female MP footage. In other Iraq news, the US administration are now talking about troop withdrawals. In fact, the differences on Iraq between the Democrats and

The Iraq invasion was a "catastrophic success", Sir Jeremy Greenstock, the UK's former special representative to Iraq, has told an inquiry.

The US occupation of Iraq is entering its twilight. By September, US troop numbers in Iraq are due to fall to about 50,000, down from 165,000 at the peak of the surge. But whether the surge was the success it has been advertised as is another matter

UK combat operations have ended in Iraq. Some statistics to note: Number of UK soldiers killed: 179 Number of weapons of mass destructions discovered: 0 Gordon Brown claims that operations in Iraq had been a “success story.” The sooner he goes the better.

The bird being Tom Switzer, and his rarity residing in the fact that he opposed the war but is now willing to write: 'it looks as if the US is achieving some kind of success in Iraq'. Jeff Weintraub links...

James Denselow: The idea that the Iraq invasion might actually have worked is gaining ground in the US media

The former daytime TV host Fern Britton seems to have had greater success grilling Tony Blair on Iraq than the Chilcot Inquiry, says Andrew Gilligan. So if it's closure and condemnation you seek, don't hold your breath

It’s now nearly five years since Seumas Milne described the terrorists in Iraq as a “classic resistance movement with widespread support”. Well whatever support they had was undermined by the horror they unleashed on the Iraqi people. However, while the surge is viewed as a success by most commentators, Milne continues to bang his tin

In his latest SOS distress call Michael Gove does something pretty extraordinary: he doesn’t just try to polish a turd, he displays the wretched thing with pride and demands that we admire it… “The liberation of Iraq has been that rarest of things – a proper British foreign policy success.” There are a few flimsy justifications for

Let's not deceive ourselves into believing that the surge made up for prior missteps.