Associated Press

LONDON — Britain's Archbishop Desmond Tutu is calling on U.S. and British leaders to admit the war in Iraq was wrong.

The Nobel prize winner says they should have "the courage and the decency" to admit their errors.

Tutu says the justification the leaders gave to go to war was, in his words, "totally, totally unfounded."

The South African archbishop notes that eleven months after the war, no one has been able to find any weapon of mass destruction in Iraq.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Tutu is equally dismissive of another U.S. argument – that the war ended Saddam Hussein's abusive regime.

Tutu says the best course now is to get greater involvement from the international community to help the people of Iraq.

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