Blair's comments are alarming

Even six years after the invasion of Iraq, it is still important to put matters into their rightful perspective if anything is to be learned from the war. Waging a major war and seeking the acceptance of the international community to carry it out should have been based on a legitimate justification, as far as the end goal is concerned.

Former British prime minister Tony Blair recently gave disturbing statements about the reasoning behind the invasion of Iraq. He said that he would have supported waging the war even if he had known beforehand that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction. "I would still have thought it right to remove him [Saddam Hussain]. I mean, obviously you would have had to use and deploy different arguments about the nature of the threat," Blair said.

The importance of this opinion stems from the fact that an entire campaign was built against Saddam and his regime based on the assumption that he possessed these weapons  which turned out to be baseless. Within the context of the international community establishing the legitimacy of the war, it is of great importance to determine whether the campaign was based on a lie.