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By\u00a0Toby Helm\u00a0–<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anti-apartheid hero attacks former prime minister over ‘double standards on war crimes’<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bush and Blair | Photograph: Luke Frazza\/EPA<\/p><\/div>\n

Archbishop\u00a0Desmond Tutu<\/a>\u00a0has called for\u00a0Tony Blair<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0George Bush<\/a>\u00a0to be hauled before the international criminal court in The Hague and delivered a damning critique of the physical and moral devastation caused by the\u00a0Iraq<\/a>war.<\/p>\n

Tutu, a Nobel peace prizewinner and hero of the anti-apartheid movement, accuses the former British and US leaders of lying about weapons of mass destruction and says the invasion left the world more destabilised and divided “than any other conflict in history”.<\/p>\n

Writing in\u00a0the\u00a0Observer<\/em><\/a>, Tutu also suggests the controversial US and UK-led action to oust Saddam Hussein in 2003 created the backdrop for the civil war in Syria and a possible wider Middle East conflict involving Iran.<\/p>\n

To read it in the Guardian click here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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