The Chilcot Report: Iraq’s grim lessons. (2016)

Then UK prime minister Tony Blair, “is not a liar and a war criminal (as many contend), but a man steered by a fatal combination of hubris, wishful thinking and moral fervour.”

The Economist 6 July 2016

“The picture (that Chilcot’s report) paints, for all the familiarity of its main elements, is a devastating one of individual and institutional failure. The verdict on Tony Blair, Britain’s prime minister at the time, is not that he is a liar and a war criminal (as many contend), but a man steered by a fatal combination of hubris, wishful thinking and moral fervour into an ultimately disastrous course of action.”

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