Uganda: I backed Iraq war blindly - Museveni

President Yoweri Museveni has admitted that he blindly supported the United States-led invasion of Iraq. "I supported the Americans in Iraq, but I didn't even know what they were fighting for," he said. "What I knew is that Saddam [Hussein] was a friend of Bashir, and Bashir was my enemy." When referring to weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Museveni said "I don’t know whether it was true or not." He said he figured that if Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, they could have easily ended up with the Sudanese President Omar Bashir and that was why he supported the American invasion of Iraq.