i do what i want

I was reading through some old newspaper articles looking for information about what happened as the war in Iraq was was being concocted. I found an interesting one concerning the knowledge of the British government. Minutes of a private and extremely sensitive meeting held in 2002 between Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair and his close government staff were released in 2005. They show the amount of information that the government knew in the run up to the war. The knowledge that Iraq was not a major threat, as foreign secretary, Jack Straw is quoted as saying: “Saddam was not threatening his neighbours, [sic] and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran.”[1] This is a significant and damning admission because the war would not be considered legal in the international community if the U.S. and England went into Iraq to just to depose Hussein.  They are strong states however and have great power on the Security Council in the U.N. Few can stand up to them without fear.

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[1] Smith, Michael. “Blair planned Iraq war from the start,” The Sunday Times. 1 May, 2005.