I am left wondering where this leaves Sir John Chilcott and his Iraq Inquiry which is due to publish its report around the turn of the year..

When he was wrapping up the hearings on 30 July 2010 he said his Inquiry would be analysing and integrating all the evidence and information.

He leaves the door open on recalling witnesses if further information becomes available.

Well, thanks to Wikileaks there are another 391,832 documents out there waiting to be analysed.

The New York Times says the Iraq documents provide no earthshaking revelations, but they offer insight, texture and context from the people actually fighting the war.

Others are not so measured.

Robert Fisk in yesterday’s Independent on Sunday is incandescent.

Iraq Inquiry member, Professor Sir Lawence Freedman, was one of six experts on Iraq who advised Tony Blair in November 2002 of the possible consequences of an invasion.

According to the IoS, the experts told Blair that occupying the country “would be difficult at best and catastrophic at worst”.

In his Journey, published last month, Blair makes no mention of receiving that expert advice only a few months before the invasion.

He explains: “the Planning for the aftermath is a point of fierce debate…. The truth is we did not anticipate the role of al-Queda or Iran. Whether we should have is another matter; and if we had anticipated, what we would have done about it is another matter again.”

Seems to me like quite an oversight.

Karzai is a crook (as if we didn’t know)

The New York Times tells us that the President of Afghanistan’s office gets cash from Iran. And it is collected in plastic bags!

Only the feeble minded would swallow his line about this arrangement being “transparent”.

But more curious is Karzai’s insistence that he discussed the matter with President George “Axis of Evil” Bush at Camp David.

We wait to hear from Dubya…