Tony Blair made wrong call on Iraq - Chilcot report

In his long-awaited report, John Chilcot has delivered a restrained yet devastating critique of former British prime minister Tony Blair’s decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003.

Britain’s Iraq war inquiry may not appear to have much relevance to us in Ireland but it has because it critiques the biggest single act of war that begat the orgy of international terrorism that has since spread from the Middle East to western Europe and affects us all.

The report concludes that Britain chose to join the US invasion before peaceful options for disarmament had been seriously considered by either Blair or US president George W Bush.