In response to David Keighley: Blair’s EU witch project and the BBC, Benthic wrote:
How anyone in their right mind could take Blair seriously. Chilcot summarised:
* There was ‘no imminent threat from Saddam Hussein’ in March 2003 and military action was ‘not a last resort’.
* The UK ‘chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted’.
* Tony Blair’s note to George Bush on July 28, 2002, saying UK would be with the US ‘whatever’, was the moment Britain was set on a path to war.
* Judgements about the threat posed by Iraq’s WMD ‘were presented with a certainty that was not justified’.
* Tony Blair told attorney general Lord Goldsmith that Iraq had committed breaches of UN Security Council resolution 1441 without giving evidence to back up his claim.
* The Ministry of Defence was ‘slow’ to react to clear need for better equipment and it was not clear whose job it was to do so.
* Planning for post-war Iraq was ‘wholly inadequate’.
* Blair government ‘failed to achieve its stated objectives’.
* The legality of the war can only be decided by an international court.
