Iraq war was mistake, Lord Falconer says

[LeftishBrit]

UK forces should not have gone into Iraq in 2003, according to Lord Falconer, one of Tony Blair's closest allies during the build-up to war.

The former Lord Chancellor told the BBC: "We didn't find weapons of mass destruction there and that was the basis by which we went in.

"So on that basis, we weren't right to go in."..


Lord Falconer shared a flat with former prime minister Tony Blair during their time as young barristers in the 1970s and was a close friend and confidant, as well as a minister, during his time in government...


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-33198974

[delrem]

1. Wow. What insight.

But oh well, "spilt milk" and all that....

[Hoyt]

2. What's in the air, Rummie was saying something similar a few weeks ago.

Next thing we know bush and blair will be apologizing for killing more of our guys than died on 9/11, wounding tens of thousands, killing hundreds of thousands innocent Iraqis, ruining our economy, and likely worse.

Too late MFers.

[forest444]

3. Their favorite mistake.

And for so many rea$on$.

[non sociopath skin]

4. Why am I unaccountably reminded of Spike Milligan's one-liner ......

.... "Archduke Franz Ferdinand Found Alive. First World War A Mistake".

The Skin