Hadi Saleh

The brutal killing of Iraqi trade unionist Hadi Saleh by insurgents, its use in an open letter to the Stop the War Coalition from Labour Friends of Iraq, and its discussion in recent columns by Nick Cohen in the Observer column and Johann Hari in The Independant have rightly received considerable attention in the blogsphere.

But in the rush to condemn those Nick Cohen terms 'the cowards of the Left' have opponents of the Iraq war been misrepresented? See typically robust response from Dead Man Left and response from The Stop the War Coalition here, here and here.

Perhaps not such a cut and dried dispute of principle as it has been represented.