'Devastating' Secret Papers Reveal Pre-War Iraq Warnings

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw had written to Mr. Blair a year before the conflict saying post-war Iraq would pose major problems.

“They demonstrate that the Government agreed with the Bush administration on regime change in Iraq more than a year before military action was taken.

“The justifications offered on many occasions to Parliament and the public that the issue was one of WMD are shown to be a mechanism designed to get round the legal obstacles in international law against the removal of Saddam Hussein.