Revealing Tony Blair's Service to the United States in the Military Attack on Iraq

Documents from the British National Archives showed that Tony Blair, then Prime Minister of the country, ordered the illegal invasion of Iraq in order to do the United States a favor.After then US President Bill Clinton accused Saddam of violating Iraq's obligations to the United Nations and developing weapons of mass destruction, Washington and London launched a four-day bombing campaign in December 1998 on about 100 Iraqi military installations.

Some 1,400 Iraqi soldiers died during these bombings.Tony Blair, the country's former prime minister, ordered the action in 1998, despite repeated warnings about the illegality of the bombing of Iraq, according to documents released Monday on the British Declassified website Declassified, AAA news agency reported.

Declassified wrote that Blair's advisers repeatedly told him that it was illegal to use force against Iraq without a UN Security Council resolution.According to these documents, Blair considered the bombing of Iraq necessary to maintain his close relationship with Clinton.

In 2003, British Prime Minister Tony Blair followed suit and ordered the UK to participate in the military intervention of the US and its allies in Iraq.In March 2003, the United States, on the orders of then-President George W. Bush, launched an airstrike on Iraq, destroying much of the country and prompting the transfer of American ground forces to Baghdad.

The American invasion of Iraq was based on the allegation that Saddam was secretly in possession of a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction; So far, this assertion has not been proven.