Iraq war was not last resort: UK inquiry

July 06, 2016 16:50

The UK's decision to invade Iraq in 2003 was not used as a "last resort", an inquiry into the war today said.

The UK did not exhaust all peaceful options before joining the invasion of Iraq, John Chilcot, the chairman of the official inquiry into the war, said on its release.

He also said judgements about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction "were presented with a certainty that was not justified" and post-war planning was "wholly inadequate". His 12-volume report on the Iraq War comes more than seven years after the inquiry began.

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