On Tuesday, British Prime Minister Tony Blair broke his silence on Hussein’s execution, calling it unacceptable.

Tony Blair: “The manner of the execution of Saddam was completely wrong, but that should not blind us to the crimes he committed to his own people, including the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis, one million causalities in the Iran-Iraq War and the use of chemical weapons against his own people, wiping out entire villages of people. So the crimes that Saddam committed does not excuse the manner of his execution, and the manner of his execution does not excuse the manner of his crimes.”