Iraq war failed to make UK safer - report

The war in Iraq failed to reduce security threats against Britain and may have harmed efforts to tackle the al Qaeda terror network, a parliamentary committee said Thursday.

"The war in Iraq might in fact have impeded the war against al Qaeda," the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said. "Our witnesses were concerned that it might have enhanced the appeal of al Qaeda to Muslims living in the Gulf region and elsewhere."

In its report, Foreign Policy Aspects Of The War Against Terrorism," the committee noted government concerns about the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, among other security threats to Britain. "We cannot conclude that these threats have diminished significantly, in spite of 'regime change'

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Back in August/September I was going everywhere I could offering the following challenge to all war hawks

Prove to me that there are links between Iraq and Al-Qaida and I will support the war, if you don't then I will go on an anti-war march.

After getting sick of the sound of chickenhawk silence I read my way through the September dossier, written with a clear intention to shock & install fear into the British population but no evidence of Al-Qaida links was forthcoming. As a result I went off on the anti-war march with about 400,000 others, heard Scott Ritter denounce Blair's dossier as the fabrication we now iknow it to be in Hyde Park and it has to be said, that does seem to have been the best political decision I have ever made in my life!

For me there was no good reason whatsoever to invade Iraq and to pursue a war for such blatantly unjust motives is just unforgivable.

did we need a study to tell us that

And it certainly doesn't appear to have made Iraq any safer.