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Boris Johnson claimed the Iraq War was a ‘mistake’ but says Britain must be willing to dare to step back into the Middle East
And in a speech in London this morning he said problems in those countries have been “exacerbated not so much by meddling as our aloofness”.
But he was willing to admit some of our previous interventions have not been totally successful, saying “with the absence of a clear plan, the war in Iraq was a mistake”.
He said removing Saddam Hussein without a succession programme not only helped cause chaos in the region but “sent a troubling signal around the Muslim world”.
However he said it did not “create the Islamist threat” to Britain, which he said has the “addictive power of crack cocaine”.
