And especially reading between the lines as to what was going on here across the pond, in the U.S. administration then, by those running the propaganda and war machine!! Will we here ever pick up our responsibility, the World waits, and attempt to clear the American peoples name and give to the victims at least a little bit of the amends owed?
After 14 months of public testimony, Oliver Wright reveals what the Iraq Inquiry has brought to light – and what remains in the dark
AP: The former foreign secretary Jack Straw arriving at the Chilcot inquiry yesterday, where he was the last witness to give evidence in public
It has lasted for 14 months. In public it has heard from 130 witnesses, including two former prime ministers, seven Cabinet ministers, 44 colonels and generals and 15 diplomats.
In private it has taken evidence from countless practitioners of the dark arts of war and diplomacy, from MI6 to GCHQ to the spies who provided intelligence from countries that are normally our allies.
Numerous documents have been published which have shed light on the processes that led to war and the consequences of it. Now there is nothing to do but wait.
Concluding the final public evidence session of his inquiry yesterday, having heard for the third time from the former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, Sir John Chilcot, the career civil servant who has led the inquiry, said that completing their final report would be a "significant task" which would take months.
"We believe it is important that we do justice to all the oral and the huge amount of written evidence we have received," he said. I don't want to set an artificial deadline on our work at this stage. What I can say is that my colleagues and I wish to finish our report as quickly as possible." So while we wait, what have we learnt?
When Blair decided to go to war {continued}
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