Former British ambassador questions Iraq invasion

The invasion of Iraq was of “questionable legitimacy”, Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations at the time of the war said today.

Jeremy Greenstock told the official inquiry into the war that although he believed the military action was legal under international law, it did not have majority backing in the UN.

“I regard our participation in the military action in Iraq in March 2003 as legal but of questionable legitimacy in that it did not have the democratically observable backing of the great majority of member states, or even perhaps of the majority of people inside the UK,” he said.