Inside Story - Justifying war? - 14 Dec 09

In this episode of Inside Story, we look at the surprise admission by Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, that he would have gone to war against Iraq even if he knew there were no weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Yet at the time it was the WMDs which justified the action. So what does this mean for the public inquiry into the war? And can Blair now be prosecuted for war crimes?

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[julianchosun]

Come on Tony, tell us the truth:

the invasion was simply because Iraq stopped using the US dollar to trade for oil, and that upset the buddies of your pal George W..

[ousamadidndoit]

Hey scuzzi5tube ...you said.."Except you and everybody conveniently ignore that Saddam used chemical weapons on his own people, Killed a million people in his war with IRAN"

Are you aware that Saddam was a CIA agent before he took power in Iraq?...And all the chemical weapons he had were sold to him by the US and the UK...also you may want to research the Iraq Iran war a bit more...you,ll find that both sides were being armed and advised by the west ...Now why would they do that?

[rainbowdragon131065]

How much money did Israel pay you Blair ?

[rainbowdragon131065]

I think Blair should hang after giving Britain's permission to go to war when 99.9% of our country didn’t want to go to war. A Zionist puppet that deserves justice. I was disgusted at the lack of response when Gaza was slaughtered a little while ago by the military of my country who say they stand up for freedom and humans rights, LOL We’re all been conned by those Zionists people.

[TopAce777]

War crimes? What a funny phrase the entire concept of war is a crime in itself especially when it's a completely pointless war with no real particular goal in mind...Tony Blair hmm..well how bout it? People of the U.K. what will you do about this???

[zhyar123456789]

fucking IRAQ 

[toqtaqiya]

Blair sucks dick!

[PrimateDynasty]

Liar! Just like the modern Nazi G.Bush! If you had to take actions because Iraq had a tyranny, why didn' you go after Saudi Arabia, Egypt, or North Korea? Murderers are always hiporcates!

[paradoarify]

Everyone involved in this except DLC is a complete moron.

[jimmid709]

Surprise admission? The only surprise is that he didn't keep lying about the reason for going to war. The whole world knew that it wasn't about weapons of mass destruction. That is why they didn't want to wait for more inspections, as that would have proved their excuse a lie. America and the UK gave Saddam the gas so they knew he had none left.

[scuzzi5tube]

@ousamadidndoit every one take a look, take a long good look on you tube ( saddam people beheading three innocent iraqis1998 ) Evil just evil.

[shahada2009]

how tragic that innocent women children lost their lives on a war by the americans against iraq! this single must error has only increased the ranks of the extremist, and radicalizing them and using the america war on islam as a recruiting tool to kill innocent americans! this war in Iraq has caused the travel of americans to muslim lands a caution! american program has not has diminish any of the terrorist but it has increased terrorist and new terrorist orgranization and alliances!