Summary
THE Iraq inquiry, for all its inadequacies and constraints, is bringing out interesting details about the inexorable drift to invasion of Iraq for "regime change" at the behest of the Bush administration (Chilcot must seek to learn lessons of war, Leader, November 29). But what still awaits exposure (apart from Britain's complicity in this) is the actual motivation for any intervention in Iraq and the subsequent conduct of operations which may amount to war crimes. The dossier on the prelude to this war, prepared by Jim Sillars and submitted by him to the Lord Advocate, Elish Angiolini, would be worth reading to the inquiry.
So would the memoir of Alan Greenspan (former chairman of the Federal Reserve in the US), who wrote: "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil."See the full content of this document
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Inquiry Will Expose Details
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