REUTERS/AP/AFP-JIJI ¨C British Prime Minister Tony Blair told U.S. President George W. Bush eight months before the 2003 invasion of Iraq ¡°I will be with you, whatever,¡± and relied on flawed intelligence and legal advice to go to war, a seven-year inquiry concluded on Wednesday.
It strongly criticized Blair on a range of issues, saying the threat posed by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein¡¯s supposed weapons of mass destruction had been over-hyped and the planning for the aftermath of war had been inadequate.
Blair responded that he had taken the decision to go to war ¡°in good faith,¡± that he still believed it was better to remove Saddam, and that he did not see that action as the cause of terrorism today, in the Middle East or elsewhere.
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