'Today, I weep for my country' — Robert Byrd's Senate floor speech, 19th March 2003

It’s twenty years to the day since President George W Bush launched the Iraq War, while millions marched in opposition around the world, declaring what most of us suspected to be true —

1. the pretext to war was concocted;

2. there was no link between Saddam Hussein and September 11th;

3. the Iraqi dictator was not producing WMDs and was not a clear and present …