This was published on Spiked today. "Those who would draw a line between the shallow politics of spin at home and this real battle of conviction politics in Iraq are missing the mark. In a sense, the war has shown that the politics of spin can come out of the barrel of a gun. . . The vacuum at the center of Iraqi society, like the bomb craters in Baghdad, reveals the hole at the heart of the Bush-Blair war." http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/00000006DD38.htm