TONY Blair managed to bluff his way with excuses through the questions put to him at the Iraq inquiry.

But one question was not asked.

As both he and President Bush declared war against Iraq on false claims of WMDs, what gives them the right to say no other country should have WMDs – especially when the UK and USA already have control of their own WMDs?

I accept they will say that other countries are too unstable to be trusted with these weapons, but as we know only to well, the only country to have ever used WMDs against another is the USA.

So who do we trust: the ones which might use WMDs in the future or the ones we know cannot be trusted because of their use of WMDs in the past?

Keith Brooks, Gateley, Horspath