An unrepentant Tony Blair defended his decision to join the United States in attacking Iraq, arguing on Friday before a panel investigating the war that the September 11, 2001 attacks made the threat of weapons of mass destruction impossible to ignore.
The former British Prime Minister said that before September 11 he thought “Saddam was a menace, that he was a threat, he was a monster, but we would have to try and make best.”
The attacks on New York and Washington changed everything, he said. “After that time, my view was you could not take risks with this issue at all,” he said.
This is Britain’s third and widest-ranging investigation of the conflict, which triggered huge protests and left 179 British troops dead. The British military withdrew from Iraq last year.






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