I support Senator Dardis's call for a debate on Iraq and the Middle East. No weapons of mass destruction have been found, as the Leader of the House, among others, very clearly pointed out during the important debates that we had in the run-up to the war and during it. It is astonishing to me, having just come back from America, to see the way in which the American people are fed pap about it. The level of debate was made clear to me when I read the remarks of one of the people involved in preparing this important report, where they acknowledged that they had been unable to find weapons of mass destruction which were described as "shiny, pointy things". That is the level of debate one has in the United States. People are kept in ignorance and 70% still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for—