Had Bush and Blair been punished for Iraq war crimes, Iran might have been spared

Had Bush and Blair been punished for Iraq war crimes, Iran might have been spared Submitted by Peter Oborne on Thu, 04/09/2026 - 16:32 It has been 23 years since the fall of Baghdad - and the parallels with the latest US-Israeli madness are chilling Protesters near the White House in Washington DC denounce US military action in Iran, on 7 April 2026 (Mandel Ngan/AFP) Off Twenty-three years ago, I sat beside Hamid Karzai in his presidential office in Kabul, watching US bombers pound Saddam Hussein’s Iraq live on Al Jazeera. It was clear the Afghan leader hated what he saw, concluding that the American-led war was mad and bad. We both grimaced – and we were right.