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5 February 2010

What role did Israel play in the run-up to the Iraq war?

Blair, Bush, Chilcot and the Israelis.

By Mehdi Hasan

I haven’t been able to bring myself to blog on the Iraq inquiry since last Friday, when we were all transfixed by Tony Blair’s defiant and unrepentant testimony. Sir John Chilcot and his team of long-winded, deferential establishment worthies did a stunningly inept and incomplete job, allowing our former premier — as is his nature — to duck, weave, dodge, distort and evade.

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