Who do you want to win the war?

That is the question David Blunkett (UK Home Secretary) asked of Robin Cook (all-round Labour sleazeball and leader of the party's Anti-War faction.)

It is difficult not to enjoy Mr Cook's discomfiture but there is an important issue here: what happens if there is a future war that you oppose? How should you answer the question?

It seems to me that if you believe a war to be wrong then you believe it wrong that our troops are fighting it and that therefore you must hope we lose. That seems a consistent position.

It just doesn't sound good.

Which is bad because if they are indeed consistent, the pre-War statement "I oppose the War" and the in-War statement "I hope we lose" should sound the same.

Surely I'm missing something?