By David Williams and Tim Shipman PUBLISHED: 18:37 EST, 26 April 2013 | UPDATED: 20:02 EST, 26 April 2013 David Cameron yesterday warned that the furore over false intelligence about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was stopping Western leaders getting tough with Syria. After accusing Syria’s Bashar al-Assad of war crimes by using the chemical weapon sarin, he admitted the WMD blunders made by Tony Blair’s government offered an excuse for leaders to do nothing. Mr Cameron said: ‘I do worry about that. I think the Iraq lesson must be about how we marshal and use information and intelligence and I think that lesson has been learned.
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Blair's false alarm over Iraq has stopped leaders tackling Assad says PM
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Britain and the US have accused Assad of using chemical weapon sarin
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Obama warned the chemical weapons should be 'a red line' for intervention
Criticism: David Cameron, right, openly said that the misuse of intelligence under @placeholder, left, was discouraging leaders from acting over the Syrian civil war
Dilemma: President Barack Obama faces a hard decision over the ongoing situation in Syria as he said that use of chemical weapons by @placeholder was the 'red line'