Not the Chilcot Report
1st Edition
Published on 26. May 2016
208 pages
978-1-78497-795-5 (ISBN)
Description
The defining calamity of the post-cold war era', in Peter Oborne's words, took place in 2003. The invasion of Iraq led to the collapse of the state system in the Middle East. Iraq is shattered, Syria will never be put back together again, and Lebanon hasn't functioned as a unified state for a long time. And the great wave of refugees unleashed by this breakdown is threatening what is left of democracy in Turkey and the very existence of the European Union.
Oborne provides a forensic examination of the way evidence was doctored and the law manipulated in 2002 and 2003 in order to justify a war for regime change. The government bent facts to fit its determination to join the US invasion, Parliament failed to scrutinise evidence, the intelligence service was perverted, and the media lost its head.
This is a masterly account of the making of a disaster, written by a passionate British democrat.
Oborne provides a forensic examination of the way evidence was doctored and the law manipulated in 2002 and 2003 in order to justify a war for regime change. The government bent facts to fit its determination to join the US invasion, Parliament failed to scrutinise evidence, the intelligence service was perverted, and the media lost its head.
This is a masterly account of the making of a disaster, written by a passionate British democrat.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-78497-795-5 (9781784977955)
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Peter Oborne is a British journalist. He is the associate editor of the Spectator and former chief political commentator of the Daily Telegraph. His books include The Triumph of the Political Class and Wounded Tiger: A History of Cricket in Pakistan.
Content
- Intro
- Welcome Page
- About Not the Chilcot report
- Contents
- Foreword
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Chapter 1. Iraq: The Defining Calamity of the Post-Cold War Era
- Chapter 2. Iraq and the West, 1979-2000
- Chapter 3. The Shift from Afghanistan to Iraq
- Chapter 4. The Road to War
- Chapter 5. The Failure of Parliament
- Chapter 6. Was the Invasion Lawful?
- Chapter 7. From Basra to Helmand Province
- Chapter 8. How MI5 was Right About al-Qaeda and Iraq
- Chapter 9. The Chilcot Inquiry and Its Antecedents
- Chapter 10. Is Tony Blair a War Criminal?
- Conclusion
- About Peter Oborne
- An Invitation from the Publisher
- Copyright
