Questions for the Inquiry
We will therefore be considering the UK’s involvement in Iraq, including the way decisions were made and actions taken, to establish, as accurately as possible, what happened and to identify the lessons that can be learned.
Sir John Chilcot 30th July 2009
The Inquiry’s terms of reference are vague and it has scope to address what ever issues it thinks are relevant. This page lists what we feel the overall issues for the Inquiry are.
Overall Questions
The overall questions for the Inquiry are set out here. They are intended to be as broad and as open-minded as possible but they do concentrate on the run-up to the invasion rather than the occupation. Each question links to a new page, setting out why there is a case to answer and a series of further questions.
1) When and how the did UK government decide to join the US-led invasion of Iraq ?
2) Why did the UK decide to take part in the US-led invasion of Iraq?
3) What caused the government to make claims about Iraq’s wmd that turned out to have been untrue?
4) Did the government abuse UN processes to provide cover for the invasion?
5) Was the legality of the invasion correctly addressed?
6) Did the government properly consider the likely impact of its involvement on the terrorist threat to the country?
7) Were the invasion, occupation and reconstruction of Iraq mishandled?
8) Did the UK government mislead subsequent inquiries or did those inquiries fail to convey the truth?
Questions for individual witnesses
The Inquiry’s expected key witnesses are listed here, with links to suggested questions for those individuals. As the Inquiry announced new witnesses, the list will be updated.
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Time October 1, 2009 at 11:39 pm
[...] site provides a damning selection of questions for the Inquiry. They won’t be answered honestly, of course, because the truth would land the system in [...]
Comment from rose gentle
Time October 4, 2009 at 1:46 pm
when the government says yes to go into iraq
the new that thy did not have the equipment to send
the troops in with and the lies on wmd ,these questions have to be ancerd ,and tony blair should be call to ancer questions lessons have to be lernd from this inquiry
Comment from Richard Heller
Time October 17, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Add to questions: what benefit arose for this country from joining the Iraq war and occupation? The government has been unable to answer this for six years. See “My Little Iraq Dossier” in http://www.richardheller.co.uk Also recent non-reply by Gordon Brown to Parliamentary Question from Lynne Jones.
Comment from Chris Ames
Time October 19, 2009 at 8:15 am
Richard, it is a good question. I shall add as a sub-question of Why did the UK decide to take part in the US-led invasion of Iraq?
Comment from john grant
Time October 23, 2009 at 4:01 am
If British lawyers acting for Palestinians can get a British judge to issue an arrest warrant for an Israeli general suspected of war crimes why has this route not been taken by lawyers acting for Iraqi’s to get Blair on trial?
Comment from michael shaw
Time October 31, 2009 at 8:47 pm
I should like to know what the Government’s treatment of weapons inspector David Kelly, before and after his untimely death, says about its true motives and intentions over Iraq and towards the British public.
Comment from c robins
Time November 24, 2009 at 6:35 am
why were all the caviats ignored in the iraq dossier?
why has blair never been asked this?
Comment from michael shaw
Time November 26, 2009 at 7:57 pm
As a measure of the scale of the public outcry against the war before it began, approximately how many people marched or attended rallies and exactly how many letters of protest did the government receive? How many staff were detailed to deal with the correspondence generated (for how long)? How do these numbers compare historically with other issues of national importance.
Comment from T. Alan
Time October 1, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Question suggestion:
How much did the ME and Asian energy resources influence the decision to attack Iraq?