The culmination of the Ellemann Doctrine, however, came under the former prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who had succeeded Uffe Ellemann-Jensen as leader of the Liberal party. He deployed Danish troops in the 2003 Iraq war, arguing it was indeed a battle between good and evil. Anders Fogh Rasmussen also became the first Danish prime minister to officially denounce the Danish collaboration policy during the Second World War as wrong, arguing "If every country had done as Denmark (i.e. given up without a fight), the outcome of the war would have been clear."