REUTERS
Prime Minister Tony Blair told U.S. President George W. Bush eight months before the 2003 invasion of Iraq «I will be with you, whatever», and relied on flawed intelligence and legal advice to go to war, a seven-year inquiry concludes.
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The events that led to war in Iraq. The conflict in Iraq followed years of tensions between President Saddam Hussein and the West, amid accusations that he was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction.
