The Independent of London is reporting the British government’s case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. Britain’s key negotiator at the U.N. testified privately that Blair knew Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction. The official, Carne Ross, told an official inquiry that at no time did the British government believe that Iraq’s WMD capability actually posed a threat to British interests and that any threat by Saddam Hussein had been “effectively contained.” The British Foreign Office had attempted to prevent the testimony of Ross from being made public.