Desmond Tutu: U.S. Should Admit Iraq War Was Wrong

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LONDON - Veteran human rights campaigner and Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Friday urged the United States and Britain to acknowledge the war in Iraq was wrong and to work with the international community to rebuild the country.

"The United States and Britain were not the authority to declare that war and they know it, because they went to the U.N. to try to get the sanction of the U.N," Tutu said in an interview with The Associated Press in the chapel of his alma mater, King's College London.

"And the justification that they gave at that time - totally, totally unfounded. ... It is over 11 months after the war, and they have not found these weapons of mass destruction."

The consequences of what Tutu called an "immoral war" have been shattering for Iraq's people, he said

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1. We've been admitting that the reasons for going to war were all wrong

it's just that the evidence supporting us has been blooming up over the dung heaps that have been used to try to bury it.