While he has publicly regretted the errors in British intelligence about Saddam Hussein, that is merely a way of shifting the blame from the government to the intelligence services. But it was not the intelligence services that decided to go to war; it was Tony Blair, with the support of Gordon Brown.
目前，没有迹象表明他会这样做。尽管他公开地对英国情报机关有关萨达姆的情报错误表示遗憾，这只不过是将责难从政府推卸到了情报机构头上。但是并不是情报机构决定发动战争的。决定是由布莱尔在布朗的支持下做出的。