Commenting on the publication of the Butler report, Charles Kennedy, Leader of the Liberal Democrats, said:
"Lord Butler stuck closely to his remit and looked at systems and institutions rather than the judgment of individual politicians. He told us the caveats surrounding the intelligence got short shrift from the politicians, but did not focus on the way the politicians used that intelligence to take us to war. That remains the unopened Pandora's Box.
"The Prime Minister says he is 'proud of this country' over its part in removing Saddam Hussein. But I doubt that, if the House of Commons had known then what it knows today about the state of Saddam Hussein's weapons' programmes, it would have voted in favour of military action."
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