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Blair: Iraq invasion was justified

Published on 12 December 2009 - 12:47pm
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Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair says he would also have ordered the invasion of Iraq if the intelligences services had not claimed the country had weapons of mass destruction.

 

In an interview with the BBC to be broadcast on Sunday, Mr Blair says that it was the danger posed by Sadam Hussein what convinced him to go ahead with the invasion. He adds that if WMDs had not been alleged to exist, other arguments would have been found to justify the invasion. Early next year Mr Blair is due to appear before the British commission investigating the Iraq war. In the run-up to the 2003 invasion, Mr Blair maintained that Iraq was capable of launching WMDs within 45 minutes. It later emerged Iraq did not have such weapons.

 

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair (Photo: Flickr / World Economic Forum)

  • Former Prime Minister Tony Blair (Photo: Flickr / World Economic Forum)

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Hiram 12 December 2009 - 10:42pm / USA
"Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair says he would also have ordered the invasion of Iraq if the intelligences services had not claimed the country had weapons of mass destruction.".......What would be the arguments to invade another country? Mr. Blair and all previous British governments used the same logic and reasons for the British's invading of Ire. It appears the Irish were very dangerous and they needed to be invaded by the Brits. { Mr. Blair a good reason might be he (Saddam) had 30,000 of his own people murdered by poision gas but one question why didn't you invade the Congo when a million humans were being slaughter? Couldn't find a good reason I assume or you would have defended those poor humans. No diamonds or oil in the Congo of which to control. In closing the Irish would have share their whisky with you but you wanted all of it. All you had to do was stop by the pub! { You attacked and got rid of a tyrant....good enough!

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