The Prime Minister And Regime Change In Iraq

EDM number 477 in 2004-05, proposed by Llew Smith on 11/01/2005.

That this House notes that on Breakfast with Frost, broadcast on 9th January, the Prime Minister described the invasion of Iraq in 2003 as 'that war to remove Saddam Hussein'; recalls a memo dated 14th March 2002, and published in full in the Daily Telegraph on 18th September 2004, written by the Prime Minister's then personal foreign policy advisor, Sir David Manning, who recorded that Mr Blair privately supported a policy of regime change in Iraq; contrasts this with what the Prime Minister told this House on the 24th September 2002, Official Report, column 17, namely that 'regime change in Iraq would be a wonderful thing. That is not the purpose of our action; our purpose is to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction'; and thus believes that the Prime Minister should make a further statement to the House to clarify why he supported and helped orchestrate the invasion of Iraq.

This motion has been signed by a total of 39 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.