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Yahoo News July 16, 2005 British ex-diplomat blasts US invasion of Iraq
LONDON (AFP) - One of Britain's most senior former diplomats has branded the US invasion of Iraq 'politically illegitimate' in an incendiary new book that the government has moved to block, a British newspaper reported.
Sir Jeremy Greenstock, who was British ambassador to the United Nations during the run-up to the 2003 invasion, makes the comments in a book entitled 'The Cost of War', excerpts of which were quoted in Sunday's The Observer.
UN negotiations 'never rose over the level of awkward diversion for the US administration', he charges in an extract published in the paper.
While 'honourable decisions' were made to remove former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, the opportunities of the post-conflict period were wasted by 'poor policy analysis and narrow-minded execution,' he charges.
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