Watching Chilcot live on BBC

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Findings at a glance

(I think this is from one of the journalists who saw the report a couple of hours early in a locked room):

The UK chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted. Military action at that time was not a last resort.
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Policy on Iraq was made on the basis of flawed intelligence assessments. It was not challenged, and should have been.
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Despite explicit warnings, the consequences of the invasion were underestimated. The planning and preparations for Iraq after Saddam Hussein were "wholly inadequate".

The circumstances in which it was decided that there was a legal basis for UK military action were "far from satisfactory".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36721645