前英国首相布莱尔就美国领导的攻打伊拉克行动期间他所称的“错误”表示道歉。
布莱尔在接受美国有线电视新闻网的采访中说，军事干预引发了当前中东地区的冲突，包括伊斯兰国组织在伊拉克和叙利亚的崛起。他说：“当然，不能说我们这些2003年罢黜萨达姆侯赛因的人对2015年的局势毫无责任。”
布莱尔说，引发攻打伊拉克的大规模杀伤性武器情报有误，战争计划也有错误，而且在罢黜萨达姆政权后可能出现的局势也有错误理解。但是他没有就伊拉克战争全面道歉。他说，不可能对罢黜萨达姆致歉，即使在2015年的当今回顾，推翻萨达姆也比让他继续执政要好。
布莱尔当年派4万5千英国军队参加联军，规模仅次于美国。美国出兵15万人，澳大利亚、西班牙和波兰分别出兵数千人。
179名英国军人在伊拉克战争中丧生。
Former British Prime MInister Tony Blair has apologized for what he calls "mistakes" made during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
In an interview with CNN, Blair also cites that military intervention as a trigger for current conflicts in the region, including the rise of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
"Of course you can't say those of us who removed Saddam in 2003 bear no responsibility for the situation in 2015,'' he says.
While critical of the flawed information on weapons of mass destruction that led to the invasion, as well as "for some of the mistakes in planning and, certainly, our mistake in our understanding of what would happen once you removed the regime" of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, Blair did not fully apologize for the war.
"I find it hard to apologize for removing Saddam. I think, even from today in 2015, it is better that he's not there than that he is there," Blair said.
Britain committed the second largest number of troops to the invasion - 45,000. They joined nearly 150,000 American soldiers and several thousand more from Australia, Spain and Poland.
Of the British forces, 179 were killed during the conflict.
