article_snippet: Families reacted with fury yesterday at learning that Mr Blair will attend a service honouring soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
article_snippet: Families say Mr Blair has blood on Mr Blair hands after sending Families sons to war and should be facing an inquiry instead.
article_snippet: Meet the troops: Mr Blair poses with British forces in 2003 after Mr Blair took the country to war in Iraq .
article_snippet: Mr Blair sent troops to Afghanistan to oust the Taliban and kill Osama Bin Laden following the September 11 attacks in 2001.
article_snippet: But the decision sparked widespread condemnation after the war dragged on for 13 years and led to hundreds of British deaths.
article_snippet: There was outrage when Mr Blair sent UK troops to Iraq in 2003.
article_snippet: Gordon Brown took over as Prime Minister in 2007, with the last of Britain’s troops withdrawing from Iraq in 2011 and Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
article_snippet: A spokesman for the Stop the War campaign said: ‘It is obscene that Mr Blair is taking the place of what could be a family member of someone who died in Afghanistan.
article_snippet: In October 2009 Mr Blair was accused of having ‘blood on Mr Blair hands’ as Mr Blair attended a commemoration service marking the end of the Iraq campaign.