Matthew Parris on the Baker Iraq report

The Times has the article which may be read in full from here, the conclusion is as follows: "The term realpolitik has become a cliché in media treatment of the ISG report this week but the irony is this: Baker’s conclusions are anything but realistic: they represent unrealism of the most fanciful kind. His route map is to La-la Land. He knows it. His report is the sugar. The pill is Defeat. Forgive me but I am finding the sheer cynicism of all this difficult to stomach. Is “we lost” so very hard to say? Now that he has limbered up with a range of moving apologies for things done by dead people who are not him, perhaps, on one of his increasingly fleeting visits to this country, Tony Blair might try his hand at the big one."