Conservative Member of Parliament David Denis said he would would submit a motion to that effect.
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“Of course, Chilcot is not deciding on that, but we do not know that he makes very clear in his report that it relied on evidence from the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith that it was legal to go to war at that point”.
Tony Blair immediately called a press conference after the report was released, to express sorrow over the outcomes of the war.
Former British prime minister Tony Blair took his country into a badly planned, woefully executed and legally questionable war in Iraq in 2003.
Under his careful supervision, the Chilcot report conjures a damning portrait of a rogue prime minister supported by reckless generals secretly engaging in an unnecessary war and ignoring the predicted mayhem that wrecked Iraq after military victory.
“Even as his standing in British politics slid in the run up to the publication of Chilcot’s inquiry into the Iraq war, the earnings soared in one of Blair’s key companies, Windrush Ventures”.
Tony Blair has said that his decision to take military action against Saddam Hussain was taken “in good faith and in what I believed to be the best interests of the country”.
But instead of standing by the decision, Corbyn himself apologised on behalf of the Labour Party for its decision under Blair to invade Iraq.
Asked if he would back the motion, Mr Corbyn said: “I haven’t seen it yet, but I think I probably would”.
And he said that the findings showed that he did not lie or mislead MPs. “This initiative does not interfere in any way with legal action either by the authorities in terms of criminal law or by the service families in the civil courts”.
Many Britons want Blair to be tried for his decision that cost the lives of 179 British soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians during the six years that the conflict lasted.
He added: “Anybody who voted has a responsibility for the actions that came from the vote”.
The motion is expected to be tabled after MPs hold a two-day debate on the Chilcot report on Wednesday and Thursday. The UK also had no post-invasion strategy, Chilcot said, and UK “had practically no input into subsequent decisions taken” by the U.S., including dissolving Saddam’s army. This would build over time until the point was reached where “military action could be taken if necessary”, without losing worldwide support.
Sir John said the invasion was based on “flawed intelligence and assessments” that went unchallenged and the supposed existence of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was “presented with certainty that was not justified”.
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Chilcot’s report on the Iraq War substantiates claims that the effect of the invasion has given rise to terrorism and unrest that has engulfed the region with no signs of abating.
