A former general has called for impeachment proceedings against Tony Blair, accusing the British Prime Minister of misleading parliament over Iraq war, The Guardian reported.

Speaking to the BBC, an ex-United Nations commander in Bosnia, Gen. Sir Michael Rose, said Blair should be impeached for going to war on Iraq on a false basis and that he had to be held to account for his actions.

"The impeachment of Mr. Blair is now something I believe must happen if we are to rekindle interest in the democratic process in this country once again". Britain was led into war on false pretences, he said. "It was a war that was to unleash untold suffering on the Iraqi people and cause grave damage to the west's prospects in the wider war against global terror."

Gen Rose reiterated that most of the British people had consistently opposed the prime minister’s unwise decision to join the U.S. President George W. Bush in his illegal war against Iraq.

"These people have seen their political wishes ignored for reasons that have now proved false. Nor has there been any attempt made in parliament to call Blair personally to account for what has transpired to be a blunder of enormous strategic significance," he added.

Rose, a former director of Special Forces, also stated that members of Parliament supported the war decision simply because Blair had stressed the argument about Saddam Hussein's Weapons of Mass Destruction, which were never found, calling on MPs to investigate just how far the prime minister went to evaluate the quality of the intelligence about the weapons allegations.

It should not be surprising that "so many of the voters of this country have turned their backs on a democratic system which they feel has so little credibility and is so unresponsive".

Rose moreover stressed that he would have resigned had he been in office at the time of the invasion, as it might have caused the politicians to "think twice about what they were doing". Source: The Guardian