Tony Blair claims that the world is better off without Saddam but the question is whether Britain would have fought this war without the argument of WMDs? I might say yes because you had to be a perfect fool to believe that the Iraq war happened because of WMDs. The WMD argument is the moral justification grown ups have to provide questioning children and sounds nice like Santa Claus.
The broader question is are politicians allowed to lie when leading a nation in to war? Some wars are for economic reasons and politicians are always subject to provide an alibi. A nation can always prevent a war proposed by a politician, but when they did not care to do that, and something does not work, they use the politicians as scapegoats. All politicians must realize this that when things do not work they are the ones to face the blame and hence needs to be very careful with decisions. That anyways is what leading means, you lead a whole nation with your decisions. But whenever a leader is wrong the nation was wrong too.
Tony Blair says that Sept 11 made him intolerant to regimes that built WMDs. But it looks like more countries are now keen on WMDs than ever in recent history post Iraq war. Everything he says gets the world more and more in to trouble.
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