Regime Change

So, Tony Blair has admitted that he would have removed Saddam Hussein regardless of the situation on WMD. Given that he was told before the order was given to attack that there was no imminent threat, I am not in the bit surprised. If Blair was the former leader of an Arab or African power there would be an international clamour for his indictment as a war criminal. As he is the former British premier there is a deafening silence. His continuing presence on the world stage is damaging to Britain and our already tarnished image on the world stage.

WMD?

So, the Iraq inquiry has barely begun, and already we are told that the Government had intelligence reports that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction. 10 days later we went to war on the premise that we were stopping the deployment of these weapons. I did not think that we would get this sort of detail this early, but sadly I am not surprised that Tony Blair had had this sort of intel in advance of invasion. I am in no doubt there will be many serious pieces of information uncovered in this inquiry, although I am not so sure it will be as full and frank as we need it to be. What we do know is that the Labour Government sent our troops into combat under false pretences.