There is no moral equivalence between the USA and Iraq in terms of their being places to live, but there is no absolute moral distinction to be made either. While we are faced with obvious questions, we can forget what they are when we dress the issues up in so much language. Perhaps I do it also. We must ask if Iraq poses a threat to its neighbours or the rest of the world, to which the answer is, probably, "Yes". Iraq is not a very nice country and it has an appalling Government which is capable of being extremely nasty to its neighbours. It demonstrated that when it attacked Iran, ably assisted by the United States of America.