Foreign Secretary David Miliband, apparently in an effort to woo back disenchanted Labour voters, has claimed that the UK would not have taken part in the illegal invasion of Iraq if we had known that Iraq didn’t have weapons of mass destruction.

The reality may have been a little different. I suggest we wouldn’t have taken part in the invasion if there had been the slightest chance that Iraq did have WMD.

He went further to suggest that Iraq was relevant to the 2005 election but not to the one next month.

But that’s for the voters to decide. Unfortunately for him and the Labour Party it’s not going away.

People are still dying there today. It has been reported that more than 1.2 million Iraqis have lost their lives due to invented “intelligence” such as the issue over ‘yellow cake’ from Niger and the misquoting of reliable witnesses – including the testimony of Iraqi defector Hussein Kamel, which was public knowledge well before the war began, and which clearly indicated that all WMD had been destroyed in, or before, 1995.

There wasn’t, in fact, the slightest evidence that Iraq had WMD. The International Atomic Energy Agency, despite claims to the contrary, carried out full and regular inspections and, indeed, their work was only interrupted by the pending invasion and destruction.

I’m sure I am not the only traditional Labour voter who lost any confidence in the Government over the way it totally disregarded public opinion over the war.

Unfortunately, even the Tory Party failed to provide any opposition. Only the Lib Dems can hold their heads up high in this matter.

R Lee,

Burford Road,

Witney