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Thu Jul 7, 2016, 11:06 AM Jul 2016

The Chilcote Report Key conclusions

Not word one in our liberal media but plenty of crap about HRC's email scandal.

People should be in jail for this crap.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/06/mi6-iraq-nerve-gas-report-stolen-from-action-film-the-rock/

The Iraq Inquiry
There was “no imminent threat from Saddam Hussein” in March 2003 and military action was “not a last resort”

The UK “chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted”

Tony Blair’s note to George Bush on July 28, 2002, saying UK would be with the US “whatever”, was the moment Britain was set on a path to war

Judgements about the threat posed by Iraq’s WMD “were presented with a certainty that was not justified”

Tony Blair told attorney general Lord Goldsmith Iraq had committed breaches of UN Security Council resolution 1441 without giving evidence to back up his claim

Ministry of Defence was “slow” to react to clear need for better equipment and it was not clear whose job it was to do so

Planning for post-war Iraq was “wholly inadequate”

Blair government “failed to achieve its stated objectives”

The legality of the war can only be decided by an international court

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