Blair, Bush should apologise for ‘immoral’ war, says Tutu

LONDON – Archbishop Desmond Tutu will challenge British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W Bush to apologise for pursuing a counterproductive and “immoral” war in Iraq, a British newspaper reported yesterday.

In a speech he was due to give in London later yesterday, Tutu was to say the turmoil after the war proved it was an illusion to believe that “force and brutality” leads to greater security, the Independent reported. It said Tutu would ridicule the “dangerously flawed” intelligence Britain and the United States used to justify military action in Iraq.”An immoral war was thus waged and the world is a great deal less safe place than before,” the paper quoted him as saying.”It is large-hearted and courageous people who are not diminished by saying ‘I made a mistake’.President Bush and Prime Minister Blair would recover considerable credibility and respect if the were able to say, ‘Yes we made a mistake’,” said the South African Nobel prize winner.- Nampa-ReutersIt said Tutu would ridicule the “dangerously flawed” intelligence Britain and the United States used to justify military action in Iraq. “An immoral war was thus waged and the world is a great deal less safe place than before,” the paper quoted him as saying. “It is large-hearted and courageous people who are not diminished by saying ‘I made a mistake’. President Bush and Prime Minister Blair would recover considerable credibility and respect if the were able to say, ‘Yes we made a mistake’,” said the South African Nobel prize winner. – Nampa-Reuters