Have you read about the Chilcot report on the legality of the UK's involvement in the Iraq war?

It’s been 7 years in the writing but today the Chilcot report into the Iraq war has been published. It’s very damning – one of the main points is that the UK chose to join the US led invasion before peaceful options for disarming Saddam had been exhausted.

What are your thoughts? Should the UK government waited to try more diplomacy? Was the support given to Bush right? What about the US role? Were the actions of that government legal? Should those events be subject to an inquiry, as Tony Blair and his government have been?

Here’s an article from a left leaning newspaper and here’s one from a more right leaning paper