Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Straw defends Iraq invasion in UN speech: "Foreign secretary Jack Straw today defended the invasion of Iraq, saying that without military action Saddam Hussein would have been 'emboldened' and the United Nations 'gravely weakened'.
... I firmly believe that the decision we took was the right one. The authority of the United Nations was at stake. "

Mr. Straw: This is a travesty of the truth.

So the US and UK had to invade Iraq because the credibility of the UN was at stake. This is a new argument for the war in Iraq. Everyone else at the UN, except Spain and Romania, was of the opinion that the UN was doing something. UN inspectors were in Iraq searching for the WMD.


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