Report Blasts British Government Decision to go to War in Iraq

The long-awaited report detailing Britain’s role in the Iraq War was finally published on Wednesday, with the seven-year inquiry finding the United Kingdom relied “on the basis of flawed intelligence and assessments” and turned to military action before “the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted.”

“It is now clear that policy on Iraq was made on the basis of flawed intelligence and assessments. They were not challenged, and they should have been,” the committee’s chairman Sir John Chilcot said in a statement on Wednesday.

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