As another inquiry into the Iraq war rambles on, we have yet to find out the real reasons for war.

But wasn’t the answer there all along?

Last week, the former Prime Minister gave the same answers he did seven years ago.

Those called before the Chilcot Inquiry have told us nothing new.

There have been the odd admissions by some ministers as to their true feelings but many whose relatives died fighting in the war still have questions unanswered.

But as a nation I feel we tend to ignore that which pains us.

And by doing so we choose to ignore the most likely reasons for going to war.

I think people should accept that few wars are fought on ideas and morals but because of need and want.

Yes, there are those conflicts which become almost unavoidable. Those are few and far between.

The Iraq war had nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction and bringing democracy to a part of the world that didn’t want it. It had little to do with enslaving Muslims.

To argue whether we were right about this or wrong about this keeps us from asking the right questions.

But as a nation and a democracy we don’t want to accept that such wars are fought for land and resources.

We don’t to be put into the same bracket as those countries we are told to despise.

However, I think sometimes we must.

Whilst I admit we have to have inquiries and debate why we went to war, are we simply asking the wrong questions?

I think as a nation we like to think our government had genuine reasons for invading Iraq; that maybe there were mistakes made and we will learn not to make them again.

But seven years on we still have people who believe what they did was right regardless of the evidence before their very eyes.

If you thought this would herald a new way of thinking I am sad to say you would be wrong.

In years to come a new generation will feel a need for this nation to go to war and many more will die for the very same reasons.

Unfortunately we won’t accept reasons then like we don’t accept them now.