During the time of the Iraq war, Gordon Brown served as Chancellor of the Exchequer, which meant that he was responsible for the finding of the war. Recently it has been released by the media that the Iraq war was very unnecessary, unjust and shouldn’t have been pushed for. There have been several news reports on the involvement of different people within this war including both Gordon Brown and Prime Minister at the time Tony Blair, both of whom fought hard for the go ahead for the war. On that really caught my eye is titles “Browns Regrets Over the Illegal Iraq War” and points out many key issues that suggested that Britain should not have gone to war with Iraq. For example, the 2 million anti-war protesters that were ignored by the Blair government that insisted that Saddam was a massive threat.
Gordon Brown has claimed that Britain was “misled” by American intelligence after they did not share that fact that they has evidence which caused doubt towards the fact that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. The war lead to the death of thousands of soldiers, cause further disability to an unstable country and resulted in Islamic militants to gather in areas of the country where there originally hadn’t been any.
The article points out that Browns statement that “he’s job as Chancellor of the Exchequer was merely to provide funds of the war.” It then states that Brown may have just said “I was only following orders.” I think that this is an extremely good point to look at because it shows people that Gordon Brown wasn’t brave enough to go against his orders an stand up for what was right. If he wasn’t so adamant to support Blair’s war, his position could have possibly allowed him to save thousands of peoples lives. If I include Gordon Brown in my collages, this will be my main focus about him and the fact that he now regrets not opposing the war.
Grace Pedder 