In the wake of the London bombings, I’ve been wondering why the “respectable” political class (i.e. MPs who are not George Galloway) has been so emphatic about the absence of any link between terrorism in Britain and the invasion/liberation (tick according to your credo) of Iraq. If the Labour Government is certain of the righteousness of what is going on (partly) in Britain’s name in Iraq, shouldn’t it actually be stressing the connection between the London attacks and policy in Iraq? A true believer in the cause would be driving home the argument that the terrorists are trying to undermine the experiment in democracy unfolding there by trying to intimidate British public opinion into calling for a withdrawal of troops, one of the main props of civil society in Iraq.But according to the mixed signals being sent, Iraq can both be on the frontline of the Global War on Terror and entirely irrelevant to the fundamentalist Islamic threat.