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Iraq invasion was right even if Saddam Hussein didn't possess WMD: Blair | Tony Blair has justified the 2002 Iraq invasion by saying that it would have been right to invade Iraq even if it was known that Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction. Blair, who is due
to give evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war, said that threat posed
by Saddam to the wider region made the military action important in 2003. "I would
still have thought it right to remove him. Obviously you would have had to use
and deploy different arguments, about the nature of the threat," Sky News quoted
Blair, as saying. "I can't really think we'd be better with him and his two sons
still in charge but it's incredibly difficult. I sympathise with the people who
were against it for perfectly good reasons and are against it now, but for me,
in the end, I had to take the decision," he added. In an interview with BBC1,
Blair acknowledges criticism of the Iraq War but argued that the invasion was
justified. "It was the notion of him as a threat to the region, of which the development
of WMD was obviously one, and because you'd had 12 years of United Nations to
and fro on this subject, he used chemical weapons on his own people - so this
was obviously the thing that was uppermost in my mind," he said. While accepting
that many blame him for dragging Britain in the worthless Iraq war, Blair said
that parents of many soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq are proud of what their
children have done. "It's also important to understand that many of those who
are in the armed forces, including those who have lost their loved ones in Afghanistan
or in Iraq, they are very often proud of what their child has done and proud of
the cause they fought in, so you've got to be. |
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