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The shame of Iraq

7 July 2016

1:00 PM

7 July 2016

1:00 PM

‘If it falls apart, everything falls apart in the region’

— Note from Tony Blair to George W. Bush, 2 June 2003.

 

The extraordinary length of time that we have had to wait for Sir John Chilcot’s report into the 2003 invasion of Iraq has not made the end result any more satisfying.

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