Tony Blair may have had doubts about Iraq, but he made a decision and stood by it. That’s leadership – Telegraph.co.uk

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When the sales of a classic movie start to fade, the trick pulled by DVD and Blu-Ray manufacturers is to issue a brand new version. Previously unseen deleted scenes, a blooper reel, archived and rarely-seen interviews with the production team theyre all added to a remastered version of the original movie and sold as the definitive version to eager and gullible fans.

This morning I wondered if Sir John Chilcot was perhaps attempting a similar marketing approach to his report into the causes of the Iraq war.

Are sales of his 12-volume opus perhaps flagging, now that the initial excitement of publication day is finally waning? Perhaps Sir John feels understandably frustrated that he was forced to produce his conclusions at a far faster pace than he would have liked, rushing to print a mere seven years after his inquiry was set up.

For to mark the first anniversary of the publication date,...

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