LONDON — Eight months before the Iraq war, the then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote to George W. Bush saying he would be with him “whatever,” the chairman of a long-awaited inquiry said.
In presenting the results of a seven-year inquiry into the Iraq war, Sir John Chilcot said that on July 29, 2002, Blair wrote a confidential memo to Bush saying “I will be with you, whatever.”
The inquiry concluded that the UK “chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament were exhausted.”
The UK planning and preparation for the war were “wholly inadequate” and in March 2003 there was “no imminent threat from Saddam Hussein.” Read more…
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