ALEX Salmond deserves praise for his commitment to bring Tony Blair to face justice for the Iraq war, one of the UK's worst and most shameful foreign policy disasters, which 13 years later still reverberates in Iraq with repercussions which are felt worldwide (Salmond reveals plan to put Tony Blair in the dock over Iraq war, News, May 22).
Hundreds of thousands of people dead, whole families wiped out, children left orphaned and traumatised, communities destroyed, all in the search for mythical weapons of mass destruction. And in the years since the war, with terrorism flourishing in Iraq and innocent people still living in fear, millionaire Mr Blair has thrived and prospered.
Jeremy Corbyn promised to publicly apologise for the Iraq war in the early days of his leadership, stating that "we don't have to wait for Chilcot to know that mistakes were made", then apparently changed his mind and decided to wait until the Chilcot Report was published, but it is to the eternal shame of the Labour Party that they have never taken steps to expel Mr Blair from their party membership.
All those responsible for the horror which has engulfed Iraq since 2003 should be brought to justice; Mr Salmond's tenacity is admirable, and should be fully supported the length and breadth of the UK.
Ruth Marr
Stirling
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