I am just catching up with Jack Straw's testimony at the Chilcott inquiry.
As they say,hindsight is a wonderful thing but it is clear that the former foreign secretary is carefully distancing himself from the former Prime Minister.
It is also clear that it was far from certain that there was a basis to go to war on the back of weapons of mass destruction and that Straw himself had a real moral dilemma over going to war.
Straw it seems worked hard to go down the UN route closely it seems with Colin Powell whilst it appears that his boss and George Bush were intent on overriding international law.
Where his testimony goes wrong is that he continued to vote for the war after the failure to get a second UN resolution.
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