BBC News
February 19, 2010
PM Gordon Brown told Tribune magazine that ministers were told there were weapons but his support was based on Iraq’s “breach of international obligations”.
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He also said his appearance at the Iraq inquiry next month was a chance to show “everything I did was both thought-through and justified”.
The Lib Dems said the comments were a “shaky attempt to rewrite history”.
Former prime minister Tony Blair told the Chilcot inquiry last month that he believed Saddam Hussein was a “monster” who had weapons of mass destruction prior to the invasion and was a threat “not just the region but the world”.
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