Report answers questions on Iraq

id the British trick the Dutch after the invasion? Questions answered about the Iraq-report.

Willibrord Davids was the chairman of the special committee of inquiry charged with the investigation of the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. He is also a master of understatement. When he presented his report to prime-minister Jan Peter Balkenende on Tuesday, he dryly pointed out that the “sturdy tome” he bore had only one thing in common with a liber amicorum or festschrift, a gift commonly presented to friends in academic circles singing praises of its recepient: the element of surprise.

The report answers several questions that have burned on many a politician’s lips for years. Below, four of the foremost.

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Labels: Dutch politics, Foreign Policy, Irak onderzoek, Iraq, United Nations

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