Iraq War Inquiry to be Released in February 2015{?}

Cameron to use Chilcot report to support his anti-war stance

Chilcot Inquiry into Britain’s role in Iraq War is to publish its report. Can PM make it work for him?

22 Sep 2014 - After much wrangling about what can and cannot be published of the personal correspondence between Tony Blair and George W Bush, I understand the report of the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War will at last be released in February 2015.

Around now, the ‘Salmon’ letters [see footnote] should be going out, giving official notice to those who are to be criticised in the Chilcot report.

These are believed to include former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair and his then Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, and a number of officials, advisers and commanders.

Though David Cameron voted in Parliament for the 2003 allied invasion of Iraq, it appears the PM believes that the publication of the report so close to the general election in May will do him and his party no real harm – that those who will suffer will be his foes on the Labour benches and in the military establishment. read more>>>

* * * The British Iraq War Inquiry * * * Released will carry private communications between GWBush and TBlair, like this already released: TB said there was a danger the Tories would see this as their chance to get rid of him … Bush said they would make it clear to the Tories that if they moved to get rid of TB "we will get rid of them".

* * * Iraq War Promoted Terrorism Rather Than Reducing It * * *

24 April 2014 - Britain’s involvement in the Iraq War promoted terrorism rather than reducing it and was a “strategic failure”, according to a major new report which estimated the cost of all UK conflicts since the end of the Cold War.
The Royal United Services Institute said the UK could face a bill of nearly £65bn, once the cost of long-term care for injured veterans was factored in, with most of the money was spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The study, called Wars in Peace, said both conflicts were largely “strategic failures” for the UK, The Guardian reported."