I find it disturbing your editorial “The tragedy of Iraq, 20 years on” (FT View, March 24) makes no mention of the important role Britain played in this fiasco. Watching the film Official Secrets would be a good memory jogger if people have forgotten how Tony Blair stood with George W Bush in sidelining the UN and how British insiders who knew the truth were silenced and even prosecuted for their opposition to the invasion. “Global trust” in the US and its “claims to moral leadership” were most certainly damaged, but so too was Britain damaged by its all too necessary complicity.

Kitty Bryant
Fort Valley, VA, US