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• John Chilcot:

  We have found that the Ministry of Defence was slow in responding to the threat of improvised explo

• John Chilcot:

  We have concluded that the U.K. chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for

• John Chilcot:

  The people of Iraq have suffered greatly.

• John Chilcot:

  The scale of the U.K. effort in post-conflict Iraq never matched the scale of the challenge.

• John Chilcot:

  Saddam Hussein was undoubtedly a brutal dictator who had attacked Iraq's neighbours, repressed and

• John Chilcot:

  The U.K. military role in Iraq ended a very long way from success.

• John Chilcot:

  The judgements about the severity of the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of a mass destruction - WMD

• John Chilcot:

  Despite explicit warnings, the consequences of the invasion were underestimated.

• John Chilcot:

  Planning and preparations for Iraq after Saddam Hussein were wholly inadequate.

• John Chilcot:

  Blair overestimated his ability to influence U.S. decisions on Iraq.