The U.S. Has No Need for Europe

Just before the start of the Second Gulf War in 2003, British Prime Minister Tony Blair approached me as a Conservative member of the House of Lords and asked for my and my colleagues’ support in improving the deployment of British forces to Iraq to, amongst other things, assure that weapons of mass destruction were not developed in that country. Because the Conservatives had a majority in Their Lordships’ House, we had the ability to delay matters inconveniently, and the Prime Minister did have a legitimate need for our cooperation.