Government slammed over Iraq war support

nited Nations resolutions on Saddam Hussein's weapons programme were not a sufficient mandate to justify the invasion of Iraq by the US and Britain, a Dutch government committee said on Tuesday.

The committee was set up last year to investigate the Dutch position, following mounting pressure from MPs and the press. The Netherlands gave political but not military support to the 2003 invasion, a decision largely based on claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Those claims later turned out to be false.

The report contains a long list of criticisms of the government of the day - a coalition between the Christian Democrats and free market Liberals VVD.

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See also >> | Conclusions and summay in English

Labels: Dutch politics, Foreign Policy, Iraq, United Nations, United States

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