Iraq war was wrong

[Lewkowski]

It was in the middle of the Cold War, there were plenty of good reasons for Vietnam.

[Loki]

And even more bad ones.

[GGT]

It was in the middle of the Cold War, there were plenty of good reasons for Vietnam.

Are you seriously trying to defend the Iraq War by citing the Viet Nam War?

[RandBlade]

Yes, the Iraq war was wrong. It was based on false intelligence. And who was using that false intelligence to get other nations to become part of a "coalition"? The US.

That makes the UK (and other coalition members) mistrust the US, with good reason.

Bullshit. We have our own intelligence services, we don't just blindly take on faith what the Americans provide us. We cooperate with the USA through Five Eyes and other agreements but have our own Security Service (MI5) as well as the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Defence Intelligence (DI) and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) all working under the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC). It is our own JIC that has come under the brunt of scrutiny and criticism from all our reviews.

[Flixy]

I think over here our own security services were a lot more cautious about the 'evidence' for wmds and warned out wasn't reliable, which was suppressed either in the ministry of foreign affairs or by the government itself.

I think this report also states that your government exaggerated the already flawed intelligence, too.

[RandBlade]

Though not dishonestly which is somewhat surprising.