There is a widespread feeling in Britain that Prime Minister Tony Blair was, to say the least, economical with the truth in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, in particular, that he expressed a certainty about Iraq’s possession of “weapons of mass destruction” that was unwarranted by the intelligence evidence available to him at the time.
However, the story of how in the 12 months prior to the invasion he engineered the UK’s participation in a war to overthrow Saddam Hussein’s regime is not widely known, even though the basic facts have been in the public domain for many years.
Blair backed regime change in March 2002
On 31 October 1998, “regime change” in Iraq became the official policy of the US. On that day President Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act, Section 3 of which states: “It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime.”
by david morrison/spinwatch
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