14 Quotes by John Chilcot

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

The judgements about the severity of the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of a mass destruction - WMD - were presented with a certainty that was not justified.

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

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

In practice, the U.K.'s most consistent strategic objective in relation to Iraq was to reduce the level of its deployed forces.