Two weeks ago I found myself in conversation with Dr Hans Blix, head of the United Nations weapons inspection team ahead of the Iraq invasion in 2003.
Dr Blix told me that Tony Blair's claims about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction were simply not an accurate reflection of the intelligence provided to the British government.
"The big difference in the British dossier," Dr Blix told me, "was that they simply asserted that these items are there. But when Mr Blair asserts that there were weapons, well that's an assertion and it was not supported by evidence. Both the UK and the US replaced question marks by exclamation marks. I certainly think it was a misrepresentation."
Comment: See also: Blair and Bush agreed attack on Iraq one year before invasion - leaked memo
"For those who have been paying attention, this is the third memo over the past 10 years that has shown clearly that Blair acted as one of the front men for a conscious conspiracy, hatched by US and British politicians, corporate executives and CIA operatives, to deceive the global public into supporting an illegal war on the Iraqi people that resulted in the death of 1.5 million people. There is already sufficient solid, actionable evidence to try Blair, Bush and their superiors for war crimes."