Tag Archives: Chilcot Inquiry

Jamie Gaskarth, University of Birmingham Did Tony Blair lie about intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction in the run up to the Iraq war in 2003? This was always one of the key questions for the Chilcot Inquiry – and in the end, its report found the intelligence services and the government’s relationship to them to be a point …

Owen D. Thomas, University of Exeter As Sir John Chilcot’s Iraq Inquiry findings are published, we should resist what’s become the easy refrain: “Blair Lied. Thousands Died.” If we actually want to learn from what happened, we should recognise that Tony Blair has been remarkably consistent in his view that the removal of the regime was necessary, whether or not …