Iraq inquiry: Brown sadness at lives lost in ‘right war’
Gordon Brown has left the building. He closed his evidence repeatedly referring to his “sadness” at the lives lost in Iraq.
There was no expression of regret. He thought it was the right war entered into for the right reasons, he repeatedly said.
Everything he said, he said repeatedly.
The families and military chiefs who were baying for him and wanted to see him skewered over the defence budget cuts got a defiant Prime Minister saying defence actually went up – every year. He repeated that one quite a few times too.
The Prime Minister carved out a description of his own distinct motivation for supporting the war. I mentioned before that he saw it as a way of propping up the UN.
He said, at one point, he was not a “neocon” and he repeatedly (yes, that word again) said “Europe and the United States” needed to build the new order (for which, I thought we were being invited to read, not the UK and the US alone).
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