CNN's John Defterios asks David Cameron if he would have invaded Iraq even if Britain had said it wouldn't participate in the war. 'I don't believe that you're leading witness Michael Klum, doesn't believe that in 1998 he made a decision for regime change,' says Prime Minister. He adds: 'The WMDs was the smoke screen. He always invaded a regime change since 1998, and definitely after 9-11' "What we later knew has nothing to do with it," defterios writes of Rumsfeld being accused of knowingly lying about Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction.
Tony Blair is the man who reinvented Labour, won a landslide majority in 1997 and went on to win three elections, becoming Labour’s longest-serving prime minister. He is also the man accused of lies, hubris, money-making deals and taking us into an illegal war.
This episode features a live event which Intelligence Squared hosted in London in March 2016, when we put Tony Blair on trial and examined his legacy on foreign policy, health, education and much more.
Levelling charges against him was Tom Bower, investigative journalist and author of Broken Vows: Tony Blair and the Tragedy of Power. Defending him was the journalist and Times columnist David Aaronovitch.
This event was originally produced by Hannah Kaye. This series was produced by Farah Jassat and Catharine Hughes, with editing and artwork from Catharine Hughes. Music is by Lesfm.
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