Iraq deceit most shameful in British history:Duke of Buccleuch
Iraq-UK, Politics, 12/30/2006

A Scottish duke, with ancestors related to Britain's royal family, Thursday castigated Prime Minister Tony Blair and other political leaders for refusing to accept the catastrophe caused in Iraq by the joint US-UK invasion in 2003.

"There has never been a more shameful event in 1,000 years of British history, and when Mr Blair apologises for the slave trade, how much more should he do so to the traumatised people of Iraq," the Duke of Buccleuch said.

"However realistic the non-existent weapons of mass destruction might have been in the eyes of the Blair cabinet, and however unwise the Conservative leaders were to believe Mr Blair, there can be no excuse for all of them now failing to admit to being wise after the event," he said.

The hereditary peer, who is Britain's largest landowner, questioned whether anyone would be able to trust politicians to refrain the government from another "unprovoked act of aggression on a par with Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939." "But for our backing in 2002, the US might have refrained from making the world a more dangerous place than ever before," he said in a letter to the Guardian newspaper.

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