They lied about Iraq. Will they do it again?

DURING the UN Security Council debate on the need to eliminate Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, we were told that Iraq represented an immediate threat not only to its neighbours but to the US itself.

Tony Blair took a country racked by doubt into conflict because Saddam’s weapons posed an immediate threat to his neighbours and to world order.

The whole purpose of the war, he said, was “a proper process of disarmament.” Nice words, but there’s one problem .