Chilcot Iraq Inquiry: Secret Talks On Ousting Saddam Hussein Began In 2001

The Iraq Inquiry panel, headed by Sir John Chilcot, alongside Sir Roderic Lyne, a retired diplomat; the historians Sir Martin Gilbert and Sir Lawrence Freedman; and Baroness Prashar. (www.iraqinquiry.org.uk)

From Times Online:

British and American officials secretly discussed overthrowing Saddam Hussein two years before the invasion of Iraq, the public inquiry into the war was told today.

On the opening day of Sir John Chilcot’s Iraq Inquiry, Foreign Office officials said they feared that United Nations sanctions against Iraq were losing support by 2001 amid growing concern about weapons of mass destruction.

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My Comment: Secretly discussed ?!?!?!?!?! .... please .... talk of overthrowing Saddam Hussein was discussed publicly throughout the 1990s after the first Gulf War. I lost count on how many public officials, media reports, and international resolutions condemning Saddam Hussein were made during this time .... with the obvious intent of provoking an uprising against this dictator.