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This seems acceptable to me:

Do I regret supporting the Iraq war? I had been in Parliament for less than three years when it broke out. I was representing Tottenham, the biggest Kurdish population in the country. And they had very strong views about Saddam Hussein because he’d gassed them. I remember a lot of those families coming to this country seeking asylum in part because of how they were treated by Saddam Hussein. So they were very keen for me to support Tony Blair. Obviously in hindsight, if I’d known then what I know now in terms of the weapons of mass destruction, the way that we did not prepare properly for life after the military action, then of course I wouldn’t have supported the endeavour. And actually I haven’t supported any interventions since and I’ve been in Parliament for 20 years so I think I’ve done pretty well. I wasn’t keen on Libya, I wasn’t keen on Syria, I voted against a lot of those.

https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/david-lammy-i-have-to-be-robust-in-public-but-i-dont-feel-that-way-inside/