The former prime minister has always defended the legality of the war as being based on the argument that both the UK and the US believed the threat from Saddam’s WMD contravened United Nations resolutions.
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Blair: I would have invaded Iraq without WMD threat
Tony Blair has admitted for the first time that he would have ordered British troops to invade Iraq alongside United States forces even if he had known Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction.
