Chilcot: the Iraq war inquiry - Guardian Live event
Following the publication of the Chilcot report, the Guardian’s deputy editor Paul Johnson asks a Guardian Live panel how the invasion, occupation and reconstruction of Iraq were mishandled and looks at the wider consequences
Did Tony Blair make assurances to George Bush about British support for the war? What led the UK government to make claims about Iraq’s WMD that turned out to be untrue? Do the findings support the popular assertion that the Iraq war was, in fact, illegal?
Many already feel they knew what Sir John Chilcot’s report would say. Since the war, claims about WMD have been proved untrue. Kofi Anan, the former UN secretary general, stated that the war had been illegal and in 2002 Bashar Assad said that US intervention would create fertile soil for terrorism. Was the rise of Isis an inevitable consequence of the 2003 war?
The Guardian’s deputy editor Paul Johnson is joined by a panel of Major General Tim Cross, Emma Sky who served in Iraq as a political adviser to the US army, Ewen MacAskill, the Guardian’s diplomatic editor from 1999 to 2006, and Sir William Patey, UK ambassador in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This Guardian Live event took place on 7 July 2016 at Kings Place, London. To find out about future events, sign up as a Guardian Member.
