Blair: Britain should be proud over Iraq

Tony Blair today said Britain should be "proud" of the role it played in ousting Saddam Hussein from Iraq.

At a news conference to mark the end of the Progressive Government Summit in Surrey, the Prime Minister insisted that he still stood by the intelligence which the Government had

published about Iraq's weapons programmes.

"When we have over the past couple of days taken the first steps for Iraqi people actually to take control of their own lives and we have the United Nations talking about 300,000 people and mass graves, then I believe we should be proud that Saddam has gone, glad that he has gone," he said.

"I have no doubt at all that in the future, whatever the differences have been in the past, we can reconstruct Iraq as a stable and prosperous country and the world will be a more secure place as a result.

"We should be proud as a country of what we have done."

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