LONDON, July 4 (UPI) -- Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair has sent a four-page letter to the father of one of six U.K. soldiers killed in southern Iraq last year.
The father of the soldier, Reg Keys, has accused the British government of wasting the life of his 20-year-old son Tony.
Sky News reported Sunday that in his handwritten letter, Blair told the father he believed he was right to go to war.
"I am as prone to fallibility as any other human being and my judgment that war was the right course to take led to British troops being engaged," Blair said in the letter, reported the News of the World. "So it was a judgment of a fundamental nature that it was my duty to get right."
Blair said that despite finding no weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction program had continued and "it was necessary to act."
Lance Cpl. Keys died along with five other Military Police officers June 24, 2003, in an attack on a police station at al Majar al Kabir, north of Basra, Iraq.
