Every last one of the lying, cheating whores who work in Whitehall or the White House should be forced to sit and watch this video at HBO. Produced and hosted by James Gandolfini, it tells the story of ten soldiers who have returned home from Iraq and have ended up celebrating their ‘alive day’, the date on which they didn’t die.

It is truly a sobering hour of television - splicing together short interviews with clips from the battlefields of Iraq - some of them shot and released by insurgents. You can hear shouts of ‘Allah Akhbar’ as military vehicles explode and the smoke and dust clears to reveal yet more tragedy.

I was one of the many who were fooled by our ‘leaders’, one of the many that supported the war and the ‘fight against terrorism’. In the last 4 years, Over 4000 coalition soldiers have been killed (and countless Iraqis), and will not celebrate their alive-day, I’m not sure who are the lucky ones - but these 10 brave people still believe that they are the lucky ones.

The rest of us - especially those so called leaders - can and should, be truly ashamed of ourselves.