“I am staggered that the prime minister is seeking to compound the error, fatal to so many of Britain’s sons and daughters, by covering up the path that led to it.”
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-Nick Clegg, leader of the opposition Liberal Democrats in the British Parliament responding to Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s decision to have a behind closed doors inquiry into the Iraq War.
Britain’s six-year operation in Iraq, which ended in April, cost the lives of 179 service personnel. At the height of combat operations in March and April 2003, Britain had 46,000 troops in Iraq. [via The Associated Press]
