Iraq War – Mohd Murtadha

The sheer size of the Chilcot report prompts satire over its last line

by murtadha on July 6, 2016 with No Comments

After seven years, the highly anticipated Chilcot report into the Iraq war is about to be published. With its 2.6 million words, the document is the end result of an enormous independent inquiry launched in 2009 by former Prime Minister … Read More

The Chilcot Inquiry in numbers: What you need to know

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The much-awaited inquiry into the Iraq war, dubbed the Chilcot report, is about to be published after seven years in the making. With its 2.6 million words, the report will be five times the size of War and Peace. SEE … Read More

'I'll be with you, whatever,' Tony Blair told George W. Bush months before Iraq invasion

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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 … Read More