‘If it falls apart, everything falls apart in the region’
— Note from Tony Blair to George W. Bush, 2 June 2003.
Instead of asking why we fought the war, we should ask why we lost
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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