{"id":503,"date":"2016-07-07T09:04:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T08:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=503"},"modified":"2016-08-20T22:38:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T21:38:31","slug":"chilcot-briefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/07\/chilcot-briefly\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilcot, briefly"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the most sympathetic interpretation, the second Gulf War was initiated on poor quality intelligence, incomplete intelligence, contrary to evidence-based failure to find WMDs, an overly-keen desire to initiate war, a premature decision to initiate war, a lack of collaborative decision making and not listening to objections and alternatives.<\/p>\n

So, it should not have been initiated.<\/p>\n

Tony Blair is a war-monger.<\/p>\n

I don’t think we learned anything we did not know already.<\/p>\n

There’s also no discussion going on about alternatives – which is what I have been feeling and saying for years.\u00a0 Stop looking for reasons to go to war – which is what happened here – but instead look for evidence-based, properly-researched, alternatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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