The revelation leads Brown to conclude that the “war could not be justified as a last resort and invasion cannot now be seen as a proportionate response”. Brown’s intervention will reopen the debate about Britain’s decision to join the US-led invasion of Iraq. Tony Blair used the assertion that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction to argue that Britain needed to join the military action. According to Brown, it made clear that evidence of “the existence of WMDs was weak, even negligible and in key areas nonexistent”. It is astonishing that none of us in the British government ever saw this American report“It is astonishing that none of us in the British government ever saw this American report,” Brown writes.

Source: The Guardian November 05, 2017 06:00 UTC