How To Protect War Criminals Although the Cabinet Office has been under fire for stalling the progress of the four-year Iraq Inquiry by Sir John Chilcot, senior diplomatic sources in the US and Whitehall indicated that it is officials in the White House and the US Department of State who have refused to sanction any declassification of critical pre- and post-war communications between George W Bush and Tony Blair. Without permission from the US government, David Cameron faces the politically embarrassing situation of having to block evidence, on Washington’s orders, from being included in the report of an expensive and lengthy British inquiry. The US State Department declined to comment. 179 British service personnel killed in Iraq 500,000 War related Iraqi deaths caused by the war to June 2011, according to 2013 PLOS Medicine study 1,569 Days since the Iraq Inquiry opened on 29 July 2009 35 Witnesses heard in private by Sir John Chilcot’s team 1,000,000+ Total length in words of the Iraq Inquiry report.
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