Robin Cook points out the irony behind the Butler Report:

"The only ministers who have left the Government over the chapter of errors that led us into war in Iraq are those who could not support the war, and the only people to be sacked are those at the BBC and the Daily Mirror who criticised it. Everyone who contributed to the errors of judgement is still in post and now patted on the head by Lord Butler for doing the best they could. That may seem very British and very sensible to Lord Butler. To the rest of the world it will seem barmy. "