Tony Blair's 2010 question

Published February 10, 2010

At the Iraq inquiry in London on Jan. 29, former British prime minister Tony Blair found a new way to defend his decision to join US president George W. Bush in invading Iraq in 2003: the what-if defence. What if they hadn't invaded Iraq, and Saddam Hussein had remained in power there?

"What's important is not to ask the March 2003 Question, but to ask the 2010 Question," Blair said. "Supposing we had...