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Scathing report slams Blair over botched Iraq War

By Associated Press
Published July 6, 2016 12:07pm ET
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Scathing report slams Blair over botched Iraq War
The then-Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair meets soldiers at Shaibah logistics base, Basra, Iraq. Thirteen years after British troops marched into Iraq and seven years after they left a country that's still mired in violence, a mammoth official report addresses the lingering question: What went wrong? (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File) | Kirsty Wigglesworth

LONDON — The Iraq War was mounted on flawed intelligence, was executed with “wholly inadequate” planning, and ended “a long way from success,” according to a damning report released Wednesday by the head of Britain’s Iraq War inquiry.

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