Wrong Reason, David.

David Miliband has come out to state that "British interests would have been harmed, perhaps badly" if Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi had been allowed to die in a Scottish jail.
Of course we know that it's a nasty old world, but this is pretty cynical even by Westminster's elevated standards.
Nothing, you'll note, of humanity; just hard cash.
Nice.

Then of course in the Commons, the tame trolls were let loose.
It was still, evidently, the SNP's fault that he was released, and it was still, evidently the wrong decision.
Go figure that piece of double standards.

Pride of place goes to Malcolm Rifkind, a man of intellect and humanity, which is now tarnished by his statement that as al-Megrahi had served only 7 years of a 27 year sentence, and that the Scottish government was culpable for this.
This laddie misses the point; al-Megrahi is dying, so will not serve much more time on this planet, let alone in jail or Libya.

What was the Scottish government meant to do?
Keep Megrahi's corpse in its' cell for the full term?
Perhaps to placate the nuttier fringe we could have his body enclosed in a steel cage and left above the doors of Edinburgh Castle to rot?

But I happen to think that this gives Iain Gray a rather red face.

After all, he wanted al-Megrahi to stay in jail.
Easy to say when you don't have to take the responsibility of actually making it happen, but how many people really think al-Megrahi would have been released had he been First Minister, and subject to the influence (to be polite) of his political bosses in London?

The Scottish Government made the right decision, for the right reasons.
Strong stuff.