After seven years and millions of dollars spent, a report probing the UK’s decision “of utmost gravity” to follow the U.S. into the Iraq War has been released, and found that former Prime Minister ...
The families of British soldiers killed in the Iraq War have demanded that Sir John Chilcot to set a deadline for the publication of his report on the UK inquiry into the conflict, and are threatening ...
You might have come across this interesting fact in The New York Times, which noted that the British report on the run-up to the Iraq War, at 2.6 million words, is four times longer than Leo Tolstoy’s ...
Announced in 2009, former civil servant John Chilcot's inquiry into Britain's decision-making and involvement in the Iraq war between 2001 and 2009 has been a long time coming, and the anticipation ...
After seven years of investigation, the British government has released its exhaustive investigation into the Iraq war. The Iraq Inquiry, also known as the Chilcot report, is massive, at a staggering ...
While individual scholars have analyzed the decision-making events, the U.S. government itself has never commissioned any detailed analysis of the path that our government took leading up to the war.
The Chilcot report on the Iraq war ought to elicit two emotions: sympathy and pity for former British prime minister Tony Blair. As was evident by late 2002, when Europeans saw the frightful resolve ...
Michel de Montaigne once described the ceremonies of the Tupinambá in Brazil in his celebrated essay, “Of Cannibals” (1580) wherein he compares the cannibalism of these people to the 16th century ...
A long-awaited official inquiry delivered a devastating indictment of Britain’s decision to invade Iraq Wednesday, finding that the war was based on flawed intelligence and had been launched before ...
LONDON — Britain joined the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 despite flawed intelligence, "wholly inadequate" planning and no imminent threat from Iraq's then-leader Saddam Hussein, a long-awaited ...
Editor’s Note: Robin Oakley was political editor and columnist for The Times newspaper in London from 1986 to 1992, the BBC’s political editor from 1992 to 2000, and CNN’s European Political Editor ...