Author: Brian

UN and Iraq: Blair’s version of history

My letter in the Independent about how the prime minister tried to re-write history once again over who was responsible for the failure to secure UN authority for the attack on Iraq

Iraq: promises, promises, broken, broken

None of Mr Blair’s conditions for war was satisfied:  there was no UN resolution authorising the use of force, no support for such a resolution by a majority of members of the Security Council, and no veto, unreasonable or otherwise, nor any need for one.