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What time Wednesday is Chilcot scheduled to be released? (Original Post) Ken Burch Jul 2016 OP
Sir John is supposed to speak around 11 am.... BooScout Jul 2016 #1
Thanks. Ken Burch Jul 2016 #2
Live now on BBC News in the UK muriel_volestrangler Jul 2016 #3
Anybody who was postingreading DU before the war is probably getting flashbacks RogueTrooper Jul 2016 #4

muriel_volestrangler

(101,311 posts)
3. Live now on BBC News in the UK
Wed Jul 6, 2016, 06:21 AM
Jul 2016

I don't know about elsewhere. So far:

The summary sentence seems to be 'peaceful options had not been exhausted'

Chilcot says Blair and Straw undermined the authority of the Security Council in the way they tried to present the 'second resolution'. He said Bush decided to invade in Dec 2002, whatever the inspectors found, and Blair agreed with that in January. Blair had been working, with Bush, to present a case for regime change in Iraq since Dec 2001.

Joint Intelligence Committee is getting blamed for its confidence that Saddam had WMD, as well as Blair.

RogueTrooper

(4,665 posts)
4. Anybody who was postingreading DU before the war is probably getting flashbacks
Wed Jul 6, 2016, 07:36 AM
Jul 2016

They wanted their war; they got their war. Let's hope the finally suffer the consequences of their murderous duplicity.

I can see this as the beginning of the end of the Special Relationship (certainly Britain's slavish adherence to it as post-Suez government policy) and, post Brexit, America finding more stable European partners.

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