Tim Blair

JOB DONE

Major Penny Cumming was a bombing advisor during the campaign in Iraq. She has now visited the targeted areas:

"Coming to Baghdad has helped me to confirm in my own mind we did our job properly and that the whole effort was worthwhile," she said.

"It's been a real eye-opener but I'm convinced it was a successful targeting campaign. From a legal perspective, I'm very confident collateral damage was kept to a minimum and the laws of war that applied were applied very strictly."

Don’t expect her to be quoted by Robert Fisk any time soon.