Iraq war consequences entirely predictable

In the wake of the Chilcot Report, what shines through is the sheer arrogance and ignorance of those who brought this calamity down on the Iraqis.

Iraqi armed forces, supported by Iranians and Americans, recaptured Fallujah this spring, but much of the city has been destroyed after years of war.Wikimedia photograph courtesy of Mahmoud Hosseini

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

July 13, 2016

LONDON, U.K.—“Suppose that...the Iraqis feel ambivalent about being invaded and real Iraqis, not [just] Saddam's special guard, decide to offer resistance,” wrote British prime minister Tony Blair to United States president George W. Bush in July 2002, a year before the U.S. and the United Kin...

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