Key findings of UK's inquiry into Iraq war

AP ^ | July 6, 2016

[The_Media_never_lie]

LONDON (AP) — The long awaited British inquiry into the 2003 invasion of Iraq has been published. Led by former senior civil servant John Chilcot, the report took over seven years to prepare and runs over two million words. The report did not analyze the legality of the invasion and instead focused on the British decision-making process in the run up to the war in 2003.

[The_Media_never_lie]

What did we do it for?

[US Navy Vet]

For the Bushes and their Saudi “Friends”.

[Mrs. Don-o]

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[dfwgator]

The Saudis.

And Trump needs to nail Hillary on her support for the war, and the fact that Hillary is much closer ideologically to Bush, than Trump is.

[JohnBrowdie]

bullsh*t. it has become fashionable in this forum to dump on GWB and the decision to remove saddam from power, when in fact it had overwhelming support from the public, it was authorized by act of congress, and it had near unanimous support in this forum.

monday morning quarterbacking; don’t do it.

[dfwgator]

Yeah, because Iraq is so much better off today. /s

[xp38]

Agree. The war was won but the aftermath was botched stupendously.

[T-Bone Texan]

The fact remains that the Bushes are traitors and enemies of America.

The fact also remains that the Bushes served the interests of the House of Saud before the interests of the American people.

[xp38]

And just to be clear a lot of that botching is the fault of 0.

[JohnBrowdie]

because BHO cut and ran. I don’t know if he was unable to secure basing rights because he is incompetent, or if he literally didn’t want them because he wanted iraq to collapse, thus retro-actively destroying the success of the doctrine of preemption.

Iraq was a “W”. Obama literally unwon it. some people just don’t have the intestinal fortitude to stand for the historical truth.

[dfwgator]

Iraq was a “W”.

For Iran.

[JohnBrowdie]

The fact remains that the Bushes are traitors and enemies of America. The fact also remains that the Bushes served the interests of the House of Saud before the interests of the American people.

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your "facts" are crap. you can't simply assert BS to be the truth, and then spike the football.

[JohnBrowdie]

Iraq was a “W”.

For Iran.

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. . . after BHO and valerie jarrett screwed the pooch. why the revisionists in this forum want to blame bush and let obama off the hook for what was clearly his failure is . . . suspicious.

[dfwgator]

They are both a fault.

But none of it would have been possible without Bush I going in to bail out his Saudi buddies and the Kuwaitis.

[T-Bone Texan]

You dispute that the Bushes served the Saudis?

You have a lot of work ahead of you to show that.

[JohnBrowdie]

They are both a fault. But none of it would have been possible without Bush I going in to bail out his Saudi buddies and the Kuwaitis.

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prove it.

[piasa]

We did it because Iraq failed to live up to the terms of the 1991 cease fire, which included, among other things, a requirement that Iraq would cooperate fully with inspectors as they confirm the veracity of Iraq’s accounting of its WMD programs;
We did it because Iraq was bribing officials all over the world to get sanctions lifted and the economic means of containing Saddam’s ambitions were coming to an end due to the corruption of UN officials and coalition officials and even media;
We did it because under the terms Iraq signed it was obligated to return captured prisoners of war from both the Iran/Iraq War and from its invasion of Kuwait;
We did it because Iraq was assisting al Qaeda affiliates in the development of poisons including the ricin cream that turned up in London ;
We did it because Iraq was harboring several wanted terrorists and was even providing them with pensions;
We did it because Iraqi, Iranian and NIF officials had been meeting in Sudan in advance of the 1998 US Embassy bombings;
We did it because Iraq was harboring two terrorist cells, one in Baghdad and one in northern Iraq which were involved in the assassination of USAID official Foley;
We did it because of Iraqi assistance with the Libyan nuclear program and other offshoring efforts;
We did it because of Iraqi diplomatic involvement with Philippine terrorists who had bombed US targets in that country and who had killed a US Army Ranger;
We did it to find out what had become of a USN officer;
We did it because of an Iraqi attempt to assassinate a former US president, his wife, and a Kuwaiti ally;
We did itbecause Saddam was promoting suicide bombings by providing family support to jihadists carrying out such bombings against a US ally and westerners caught in the bombings...

[JohnBrowdie]

You dispute that the Bushes served the Saudis? You have a lot of work ahead of you to show that.

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as it happens, I'm not the one making the accusation. you are. the burden of proof is yours.

[JohnBrowdie]

we did it because he had stockpiles of chemical weapons — that he was ultimately able to secret out of the country to syria (who ultimately used them) — while the french bogged us down in the UN security council.

[VanDeKoik]

Realizing you were wrong =/= being fashionable.

It is realizing that the end result was worse than where you started.