The UK parliament ain't the only relevant institution here. The invasion of Iraq was an open and blatant breach of the UN charter [0], it was an illegal war of

The UK parliament ain't the only relevant institution here. The invasion of Iraq was an open and blatant breach of the UN charter [0], it was an illegal war of aggression based on lies. Lies that were so blatant that the whole situation lead to the largest global protest event in human history [1]. And that doesn't even go into the direct consequences of that; Refugees all the way into Western Europe, among them many disgruntled people who felt wronged, serving as potential recruits for an AQ that had by then become world famous thanks to the US. What that lead to were the first major Islamic terror attacks in Western Europe [2], among them the 2005 London bombings by AQ, which were a direct response to the UK participation in invading Iraq, just like the 2004 AQ attack in Madrid, Spain. In that context it's not really difficult to see why Tony Blair is such a controversial personality. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/16/iraq.iraq https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/16/iraq.iraq [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_protests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_prot... [2] https://www.datagraver.com/case/people-killed-by-terrorism-per-year-in-western-europe-1970-2015 https://www.datagraver.com/case/people-killed-by-terrorism-p...