I honestly don't know. Because UKIP doesn't currently have any MPs, there hasn't really been a chance for UKIP to voice an opinion. I don't recall seeing anyone from UKIP being asked what they thought about it. Prior to the European elections the party was still marginalised in the press.
My own stance on this is that we should have done what the Lib Dems wanted - push for the final UN mandate to go to war. Blair claimed that the French were going to veto any resolutions that would allow this, but I am fairly sure that this turned out to be another Labour lie.
That is not to say that we shouldn't have gone to war at all, but if the inspectors had been allowed to finish their work we would not have gone to war on the false evidence presented by Labour. Nor would we be involved in what the UN has declared an illegal war.
Blair's government forced this issue through, based on shoddy intelligence. They didn't go through the proper channels to get a proper coalition together and the Conservatives supported this. Hopefully the war has taught both parties the necessity to do things properly. An apology to France and Germany might not go amiss either, because they were proved completely right.
Had Blair said "we need to go to war with Iraq to free the Iraqi people, keep our Anglo-American alliance and secure the Iraqi oil" then we could have had an open debate on whether this was what we wanted.
The pretence that it was about WMDs is an insult to our sensibilities now. As Senator Kerry pointed out last night, while we have been nation-building in Iraq, North Korea has actually been developing nuclear weapons, as has Iran. Do we expect an invasion of either of them any time soon? I think not.
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