Demagogue

Alistair Darling has been a senior minister in Tony Blair's cabinet for several years now and more recently a staunch defender of the war in Iraq. According to Private Eye, he wrote this reply to a letter from a constituent whose nephew is serving in Basra:

The decision to deploy troops was taken on military grounds to support operations designed to bring about the terrorist activity in parts of Iraq. Whatever your views on Iraq, I believe it is important that we see this through....

So the mission really has been accomplished!