In a write up in The Observer newspaper, the 80-year-old South African peace icon and hero of the anti-apartheid movement accused the former US and British leaders of lying about weapons of mass destruction, saying that the invasion left the world more destabilised and divided "than any other conflict in history" and wrote that the leaders should be made to "answer for their actions."
The 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner suggested that the controversial US and UK-led action to oust Saddam Hussein in 2003 created the backdrop for the civil war in Syria and a possible wider Middle East conflict involving Iran.
"The then leaders of the United States and Great Britain fabricated the grounds to behave like playground bullies and drive us further apart. They have driven us to the edge of a precipice where we now stand